Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determining an aviation policy for the United States Government, what should be the relation between the military and civilian services? "Our answer to this question is that they should remain distinctly separate. "The peacetime activities of the United States have never been governed by military considerations. To organize its peacetime activi- ties, or what it is thought may ultimately be one large branch of them, under military control or on a military basis would be to make the same mistake which, properly or improperly, the world believes Prussia to have made in the last generation. The union of civil...
...address was the only one either greatly moving or notably significant. Rising to his full height, he cried: "At last the spirit of solidarity takes the place of that of distrust and suspicion. . . . Opposite me I behold the German delegates. That does not mean that I do not remain a good Frenchman! They are good Germans! But in the light of these treaties we are good Europeans only! . . . By and over our signatures we declare for peace...
...costing us each about $20 a day to stay in Washington. The trial has already lasted 30 days, which means the court members have spent about $600 apiece to remain here, while we all have to keep up our establishments at home. But our chief objection to sitting here is thinking that our own commands may be meanwhile going to hell...
...Moscow, Acting Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinov was at some pains to deny loudly that the Soviet Union has the slightest intention of ever joining the League of Nations. He said: "Like the United States of America, we should continue to remain aloof. . . . The League is a mere screen for the oppression of small and weak nations by the Powers...
...York Sun said: "New York can regret the decision of the Rev. Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk to decline the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in this city and at the same time honor him for the motives which impelled him to remain in Baltimore...