Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave $100,600 for the National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington's B Street. The passage of the 19th Amendment was her reward. In 1931, aged 78, she also had her finger in the passage of the Cable Act which enables U. S. women to retain their citizenship when married to foreign nationals...
...proposes the following machinery: Within two years the Philippine Legislature is to call a convention to frame a republican constitution which must be approved by the U. S. President and the Philippine people. Thereafter an eight-year probationary period will follow during which the U. S. will retain control of the islands' International affairs, foreign loans and defense. A U. S. High Commissioner will replace the Governor General. Filipinos will be restricted to a U. S. immigration quota of 50 per year. Duty-free sugar imports to the U. S. will be limited to 850,000 tons per year...
...founder was Sumner A. Cunningham, a Tennessee publisher who had lately sold his Chattanooga Times for $300 to an up-&-coming young newspaperman named Adolph Ochs. Cunningham's pamphlets about the memorial fund aroused so much interest among the Grays that he started the monthly magazine to retain that interest. Main features were veterans' reminiscences, historical sketches "to correct erroneous impressions...
...first financial relationship between Lawyer Young and Utilitarian Insull was when Mr. Insull formed holding companies to retain control of his empire...
Post Office's Brown: "It has been the department's policy to retain all regular employes on its rolls notwithstanding the continued shrinkage of mail volume. . . . Much more harm than good would result from throwing great numbers of postal workers into the ranks of unemployed. Resort should not be had to further rate increases as a means of balancing the postal budget. ... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to restore the 2-cent rate to local or drop letters...