Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with its machine guns to Evarts. Col. Carrell set up headquarters in a caboose. The local headquarters of the U. M. W. O. A. ran up an enormous U. S. flag that shrouded the single doorway. Col. Carrell called a citizens' mass meeting, declared his purpose was to maintain peace at any cost, contributed $3 to a collection for destitute miners. The situation, for the time being, was under control...
...shall take full precautions and I shall maintain peace so long as I have the honor to be where I am. It has been charged against me that it is I who by my weakness am preparing for war. There are people who say and write that. Eh bien! Behind them are the people of France, who do not believe...
...money which is collected by the classes is turned over to the Treasurer of Harvard University to extend the work and personnel of the University, to increase faculty salaries, to improve equipment, and help Harvard maintain its high standing among American universities...
...contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director 0. Emerson Brown of Philadelphia's Zoological Gardens, an ape enthusiast, as an experimental breeding place. The Republic of Cuba doubtless remembered this offer when, short of funds with which to maintain the Villa Palatino, it last week consigned part of Senora Abreu's collection to the Philadelphia zoo. The shipment contained a family of Sumatran orangutans, a pair of lion-tailed monkeys, a pair of golden marmosets, a black Celebes ape and an African mandrill said to be the largest...
...principally at stake is Henry Ford's place in economic history. Two years ago he saw the whole world, including bankers, capitulating to the Ford theory that high wages create prosperity. A year ago he was pleased to see that the U. S. business world still fought to maintain the theory of which he had become the Symbol. But last week he knew that the greatest subject in business today is whether or not wages must come down, that many financiers (historically his opponents) are paving the way for such a move. Henry Ford has given no real opinion...