Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After they graduate, extra-curricular "big shots" retain the competitive spirit of their college days. According to a survey made by the Personal Study and Graduate Placement Bureaus, former campus leaders meet success sooner than their loss prominent classmates. Their salaries are higher. Though the survey takes in only a small group, its findings are plausible enough to be accepted as accurate...
...receivership and reorganization of the Nickel Plate occurs it is likely that the only way common stockholders can retain control is through an assessment. Last February control of the Nickel Plate was shifted under option from Alleghany Corp., loaded down with bank loans, to Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which at the end of last year had $11,000,000 in cash and cash deposits. Despite the Nickel Plate's situation, its common shares sold last week at $5, indicating most people thought the stock would not be wiped out, that the "Vans" could patch up their pyramid. And announcement of their...
...border states of Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oklahoma which would bring his total to 148. With this sum fairly sure, there is a possibility of adding greatly to his strength, further votes in the states west of the Mississippi River. Should he win the entire West and retain the South, Roosevelt would easily carry the election with a total of 274 electoral votes...
Outside Congress: Despite twelve years' minute attention to his local political fences, he is now confronted with the battle of his career to retain his Senate seat. Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept. 13. Two years ago Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long, State boss, turned bewhiskered old Joseph Eugene Ransdell out of the Senate to get his seat. This year Senator Long has picked a neophyte Representative named John Holmes Overton to turn out Senator Broussard, give himself complete domination of Louisiana's Senatorial delegation. Campaigning vigorously, Senator Broussard has been denouncing the Long economic theories as Communistic, promising...
...rendered only in the form of manufacturing operations, transport and the like. Mr. Andrews refers to the British navy. This was built by British labour, in British time -neither of which commodities are acceptable to America as debt payment. Further, all decent bankruptcy laws provide that the debtor may retain the means of self-preservation. With regard to Mr. Andrews' second point, surely a country which has taxed itself far beyond what any American can comprehend, in an attempt to pay, in a currency which has been at a premium, money which it borrowed to lend to countries which...