Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unable to maintain himself in Mecca, King Husein last week abdicated the Throne of Hejaz and the Califate-Islam was again without a Calif for the second time within a year. King Husein, tears in his eyes, declared that his abdication was a temporary measure designed to protect Mecca from possible destruction. A despatch from Cairo stated that the royal signature to the document of abdication was affixed only after "he had spent many hours in prayer and wireless communication with his sons," Faisal and Abdullah...
...better known advertisers will of course maintain lobbies to influence the vote of the jury. Trade and Mark will be present, accompanied by their sister, Elsie, the stenographer's friend. The three wise men of the East will parade in all their glory in an endeavor to turn the vote of Klan members of the jury to Kollege Konstructed Klothes...
...struggle of Henry Jewett to maintain a repertory theatre of serious plays has failed. The public did not give the warm-hearted support that the Copley. Theatre deserved, and now the Trustees of the Jewett Repertory Theatre have voted to withhold further subsidy. A last hope plan of cooperative production was rejected for it gave no more promise than previous arrangements of winning box office support...
...four years of plenty (a major league record) are chiefly asscribable to the shrewdness of John McGraw, their square-jawed manager, and to heavy financial backing. Not only has McGraw the acumen for constructing and lubricating a baseball machine but he has also been supplied with dollars sufficient to maintain a far-flung network of "scouts" on the lookout for fresh material; sufficient to purchase such material at any price...
...parts of the country with information on voting by mail. Director John Hamlin, of the College Bureau of the Republican National Committee, has just sent to the Harvard Republican Club full data on absentee voting laws of all states, and has requested the clubs to organize and maintain information bureaus for the benefit of voters who will be away from home on election...