Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ohio's fact-minded Senator Robert Alphonso Taft wanted to find out what lay behind the talk of recession. That was part of his job as chairman of the joint Senate-House Committee on the Economic Report, which is responsible for recommending policies to maintain high employment. So Taft asked Dun & Bradstreet to gather the opinions of manufacturers, financiers, retailers, economists, labor leaders, etc. Last week, Dun & Bradstreet reported the results of its detailed questionnaire...
...Called on Labor to maintain moderate wages...
...letter to his parents back in Nebraska, Pound explained that studying was hardly fashionable in Cambridge. But he had found an ingenious way to maintain both caste and scholarship. "The Law School men have the reputation of working harder than the College men--and I think they probably do," he wrote. "If a College man works very hard, he is called a grind and generally looked down...
Wealthy (Beecham's Pills) Sir Thomas has had his way about his favorite soloist, for London's new Royal Philharmonic was his own. (He had organized it because, he explained, "There is no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation...
...past eight months have been a challenge to Harvard. The sheer size of the undergraduate body as well as its unfamiliar composition have taxed the ingenuity of the Administration from President Conant to the baby deans. Books, instructors, and room space have been in short supply. The effort to maintain high educational standards while serving the largest number of students in Harvard history has put the College to the test. And it has not been found wanting...