Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loving mayor. That he was A. L. P.'s mayor any more than he was Fusion's or the Republicans', however, Fiorello LaGuardia denied in one of his explosive bursts of advice: "Your party is clean now and has lofty principles, but it is hard to maintain these things. Every political party ought to be disbanded after 20 years...
Already three weeks, ahead of last year's schedule on Senior pictures, the Album committee is anxious to maintain the commanding lead that the House men have made possible by their prompt appointments...
...Navy's intention of asking Congress for two more battleships at the next regular session. Taking his cue from Franklin Roosevelt's fondness for quoting from other philosophers, Mr. Edison last week quoted him: ["It is] entirely consistent with our continuing readiness to limit armaments to maintain a defense at sea sufficient to insure the preservation of our democratic ideals and the maintenance of a righteous peace...
...Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign for his gambols on the Riviera, his gambling at Deauville) as a monarch "cool, determined . . . dauntless," generally much misunderstood...
Determined to maintain the Star in high gear, President John Cowles took an apartment in Minneapolis to be close to the job and returned hard-bitten General Manager John Thompson to the publisher's post which he held until 1935. To edit the Star ably, Owners Cowles shifted from their Des Moines Register & Tribune 200-Ib. Managing Editor Basil Leon ("Stuffy") Walters, whose stubby nose scents news leagues away...