Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operators had given full powers to their negotiating committee, that they had chosen their representatives and did not intend to change them at the dictation of the miners. "You would, I am sure, resent any attempt by us to say who should represent the mine workers. We must maintain the same right to say who shall represent the operators. This right has been exercised, and the personnel of the committee can not be changed...
From August, 1923, to June 1, 1925, the state of South Dakota retailed gasoline. On June 1 it gave up the practice, the State Gasoline Commission having reached an agreement with dealers that they would maintain a fair price. Last week Governor Carl Gunderson ordered 24 gasoline stations opened by the state, chiefly in county-seat towns. He argued that gasoline is now selling at about 25c. a gallon that could profitably be sold for 21 or 22c., that citizens can save $3,000,000 a year if state gasoline stations are reopened...
...high value to the survival of the landed aristocracy of Great Britain and believing they may still continue to be a source of stability to the State, I desire that my family, which has owned and resided at Kedleston for over 800 years, shall continue to live there and maintain the traditions of a not unworthy past. I have sought to assist my successors in doing this with dignity but without extravagance...
...long as a high percentage of the population is vaccinated, no smallpox epidemic will occur. To maintain interest in this procedure before an outbreak occurs is the duty of health authorities, and this is made increasingly difficult by such distortions of fact which give a false sense of security with the accompanying indifference...
...under a search warrant sworn out by a Prohibition agent under an assumed name. Said the court: "No sworn affidavit that deliberately misstates facts will be recognized by this court." Federal agents have been swearing out search warrants under assumed names in order to hide their identity and thereby maintain their usefulness. The action of Judge Partridge will probably result in the dismissal of several hundred cases against alleged bootleggers in which warrants were sworn out by agents under other than their true names...