Word: retained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will arise on two grounds the one political the other economic", he replied. "The political objection will undoubtedly center on the assertion that the union is in contravention of Article 82 of the Treaty of Versailles, but this ground is unsound in view of the fact that both countries retain their sovereighty and separate political entity. However, many Germans and Austrians, remembering how the Prussian customs union helped to unite Germany politically into the German Empire, now hail this alliance as the first step toward a political union in the future; but such an "Anschluss" would need the consent...
Heat Wave is another play about the tropics where white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot...
...academic interests will be distributed in fairly equal proportions. One or two noticeable exceptions to this rule require a wood of explanation. The balance of public and private school men in Adams House, for instance, is upset because men now living in Randolph and Westmorly are allowed to retain their rooms...
...Shell Union; the royalties they had to pay were tremendous. So a holding company for them, called United Gasoline Co., negotiated to buy Universal Oil Products for $22,249.999. Halle, Dubbs, et al and most of a modern staff of 350 go with it. Mrs. Armour and they retain some stock interest in it and in its huge dividends, so that Mr. Halle says: "$22,000,000 does not tell the whole story of what we all made of it." Last week's proceeds were as follows...
Pennsylvania (17,000 mi.) would retain its control of Wabash, Norfolk & Western and Detroit, Toledo & Ironton...