Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support their contention they claim that he always were rubbers tied on with rubber bands, even when he was indoors. They also maintain that when he died there were 20 hornet nests in his bedroom
Franklin Roosevelt's conclusion seemed a thunder-stealing echo of Isolationist Charles Lindbergh, who last fortnight begged the U. S. to make itself a citadel of democracy. Said the President: "Fate seems now to compel us to ... maintain in the western world a citadel wherein . . . civilization may be kept alive...
...hrer, as a conqueror who had smashed the Polish State in 18 days, turned at Danzig to reassure Joseph Stalin and pave the way for the military partition of Poland by friendly Nazis and Reds (see p. 29). "I am happy now ... to refute . . . British statesmen who continually maintain that Germany intends to dominate Europe to the Ural Mountains. . . . Now, gentlemen of the British Empire, Germany's aims are very limited. We have discussed the matter with Russia . . . and if you are of the opinion that we might come to a conflict on the subject-we will...
Little Sisters today maintain 307 old people's homes throughout the world. The 52 U. S. homes care for 50,000 oldsters-men & women over 60, of all faiths. Upon entering a home, inmates surrender their belongings, if any, to the order, thus become members of a "Little Family," call the superior "Good Mother." Many a home is now in a dither of pious excitement. With no regard for calendar dates, the Little Sisters have been celebrating their centenary. The mother house at St. Servan (which was a base hospital in World War I) celebrated in July, Brooklyn Little...
...wind of Nazi Germany's Latin American trade, putting the U. S.'s No. 1 competitor in this hemisphere out of the market. Britain still shops heavily in the Latin American market for war and food supplies, but is too thoroughly occupied by war to maintain her exports. France is in the same boat, and jittery Italy does not yet know where she stands...