Word: maintained
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...Government's tax collections. Processing taxes on wheat, corn, hogs, cotton, tobacco were contested. A temporary injunction against the operation of the Bankhead Cotton Act was issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before the law that the Christmas gifts farmers have been getting do not come from Santa Claus, that processing "taxes" are but white whiskers to conceal the fact that one group of citizens are putting thieving hands into the pockets of another group...
...provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired the first shots of the Ualual Incident (TIME, Dec. 24), but shall not discuss the real issue of whether Ualual is in Italian Somaliland, as Italians claim, or in Ethiopia, as Ethiopians maintain. While this is going on Italy, France and Britain will negotiate about Ethiopia among themselves and totally outside the League of Nations on the basis of their Treaty of 1906, unrecognized by Ethiopia and said to provide for the division of Ethiopia into "zones of influence" among Britain, France...
...pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program of some sort. As a matter of fact his strategy remained that of a general in brave and vigilant retreat, alert to advance at the first sign...
...discuss "The White Front." Shushing all queries, they told the great and patriotic lie that "there is no crisis in The Netherlands now," added that the entire situation is covered by Dutch determination to continue applying the motto of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House, "Je Maintiendrai" ("I will maintain...
Last year there were 79 Episcopal marriages, 296 burials, no ordinations for the priesthood. Vermont Episcopalians are mostly high church, hence will get along with ultra-high Dr. Sutton. Chief problem he must face is finance - how to maintain, if not spread, an extensive series of missionary chapels...