Word: retained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erection of schoolhouses that are "comfortable, safe, sanitary, well-equipped, and yet retain an air of friendliness...
...recent 5% rate was inaugurated Mar. 5 this year, because of the policy of gold resumption in London. Before reassuming a free gold market, the British evidently wished to establish higher interest rates in London, in order to retain as much gold as possible, and draw thither gold from other countries. This aim has evidently been accomplished, and since the spring, gold holdings have advanced some...
...would result in the President's requesting Congress to dissolve the Shipping Board. For long the Administration has regarded the Board as ineffective, muddling, unbusinesslike, and has wished to transfer control of the Government's fleet to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The Board has steadily fought to retain its powers, seeking by lip service to the President to convince Congress that there was no need to have it shorn of its powers. Sooner or later, say observers, there will be a showdown...
...event that, in the autumn, the strain of large gold shipments to the U. S. appears imminent, the first probable step of the British to retain their gold will be to raise the rate of redis-ount at the Bank of England. This step tends to draw investment funds from the U. S. to England-a money movement which offsets British payments for purchases of our goods, and thus obviates the decline in sterling exchange and the need of extensive gold shipments...
...invited?an effort to get Senator Butler into favor with the followers of the late Senator Lodge, who did not like the manner in which the Butler machine ran rough shod over Mr. Lodge at the Republican Convention last summer. Mr. Butler will have a real struggle to retain his seat because of the Lodge group and because of the strength of his Democratic opponent, David I. Walsh. Frederick H. Gillett beat Mr. Walsh last fall by only 25,000 votes although President Coolidge had a 400,000 vote margin in Massachusetts, and Governor Fuller 200,000 votes to spare...