Word: retained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete the conquest of China required some 20 months and pitted the Nationalist Generalissimo against the strongest armies and keenest brains which a coalition of Northern War Lords could fling against him in a Death struggle to retain their power. This part of Chiang's saga should be told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen...
When questioned as to whether he thought that the South would follow its natural Democratic tendencies or be swayed by religious considerations Senator Walsh replied, "I have faith in the South and expect it to retain its solidity. Privately, however, I am a bit worried about Tennessee...
...right to own and manage her own property, to retain her earnings and protect and safeguard her rights by the vote and otherwise has now become an accepted fact...
Customs officials at Washington, unlike those at the Port of New York, showed some sympathy with this viewpoint. They admitted solemnly that for several years the right has been recognized of a woman of foreign birth (Ganna Walska is a Pole) who married a U. S. citizen to retain her own nationality together with its privileges. In addition they confessed that there were precedents for a U. S. citizen who has established legal residence abroad (as Ganna Walska has done in Paris) bringing personal effects to the U. S. without paying duty...
...were days when it seemed that William Averell Harriman and his associates must lose their $3,450,000 put into a Soviet concession to export Manganese ore from the Chiatouri district of Russia. The Soviets had formed a state Manganese trust. But last week they announced an agreement to retain the Harriman money, to pay the Harriman an income guaranteed by 7% bonds...