Word: retainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott Roosevelt, aided by a business associate named Grenville W. Stratton, made an agreement with Anthony Fokker to sell military planes disguised as commercial types to U. S. S. R. Young Roosevelt was to form a company which was to receive a $25,000 retaining fee from Fokker. Son Elliott personally was handed four $1,000 and two $500 bills as a down payment and gave a receipt for them. The 50 planes which it hoped to sell Russia were to be priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm...
...merchants and manufacturers. In some cases big buyers may be driven even further into their own manufacturing operations. In others the manufacturers may have to choose the type of customer they intend to sell to, for the law seems to preclude the wide price differential necessary to retain both a wholesale and a retail trade...
...Romeo, Romeo! . . . 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. What's in a name? That which we call a rose be any other name would small as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself...
...rage of victorious Benito Mussolini, defeated Haile Selassie won at Geneva last week the right to retain his delegation's seat in the Assembly of the League of Nations during its present session. British efforts to bar the Ethiopians, half heartedly seconded by the French, were called by veteran New York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Elliott "a bit of jugglery so contemptible that even a Tammany politician might have blushed to be connected with...
...Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European economists had guessed-not knowing of the super-secret parleys-that once the franc sank the British would sink their pound even lower to retain .its competitive advantage in world trade. It was perfectly believable that the State Bank comrades had dumped their sterling simply because they had wrongly but honestly guessed that it was too hot for them to hold...