Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never fought a war with trained and equipped troops, and we never shall do so. It is inconsistent with the form of our government and the psychology of our people to maintain adequate military preparedness. They would rather pay the price that has followed every war than spend a part of the amount in preserving peace...
Pope Pius XI last week appointed Andrew Francis Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, to be Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. Thereby His Holiness revived an office, founded originally to collect money to maintain the papal armies, which became a great scandal in the 17th Century. So great was the probable graft that Lorenzo Corsini, later Pope Clement...
...hosts of Sandino sweep on, attempting to capture the park, to use the stone wall for protection. It is now daylight?the Americans have not retreated an inch. The constabulary maintain their positions. The American sharpshooters are piling up the dead...
...forces; but Mr. Kellogg drew from this refusal the conclusion not that General Sandino is a "patriot," but instead the decision that he is "an outlaw . . . whose acts have no political significance." The Secretary backed up this postulate by stating that General Sandino's men have recently sought to maintain themselves by foraging upon the. property of U. S. citizens and others in Nicaragua. Thus they would fall directly within the scope of U. S. marines sent by President Coolidge "to protect the lives and property of U. S. citizens...
...known as Volcano House) built on the side of the mountain. For some time, however, he has been away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...