Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important to realize that the Resolution was defeated primarily because of the astonishingly effective propaganda aroused over the short space of one week-end by those two staunch protectors of one hundred per cent Americanism, Father Coughlin and the Hearst papers. "Joining the court," said the former, "to maintain peace strongly stinks of diplomatic deceit." He was aided no end by the latters' publishing the pictures of Great American Statesmen, accompanied by the question, "Senators, have you forgotten these...
...frequently been so used, and that use of it was the very reason for the Antitrust Acts themselves. But that was price control downward in an effort to destroy competition. . . . NRA price stabilizations were all for exactly the reverse purpose-to prevent cut-throat and monopolistic price slashing, to maintain small industry, to continue employment, to abolish economic murder...
...each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied by Britain, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden charged for their services only a sum representing the difference between what it would have cost to maintain them at home and the cost of transporting them to the Saar, maintaining them there...
...engaged in the training of ministers. There are four or five Divinity Schools in the United States, non-sectarian in character, which are, as Harvard Divinity School is, integral parts of large universities. There are perhaps twenty or twenty-five more theological schools on independent foundations which profess to maintain academic standards of university level. Below these is a successions of seminaries of lower standards which resolve themselves. Finally into little more than schools of vocational guidance for students of hardly more than high-school grade...
...arrival of the first ballots in the Literary Digest peace poll again arouses a question concerning the value of such expressions of undergraduate opinion. The sponsors of the poll, maintain that it will crystallize the attitude of students against war, thus, presumably, serving to maintain peace. The discussion that inevitably accompanies the completion of the ballots is intended to stimulate thought on the subject...