Word: retainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bitter experience has taught Great Britain that the hopes expressed four years ago in a plea for the removal of restrictions upon European trade have failed to be realized. The restrictions have materially increased and the sale of surplus foreign products in British markets has steadily grown. While we retain hope of an ultimate extension of the area of Free Trade throughout the world, we believe that immediate steps for securing and extending the market for British goods lie in reciprocal trade agreements between the nations constituting the British empire...
...conditions for securing these agreements Great Britain must retain her open market for all Empire products while prepared to impose duties on all imports from other countries...
...Tribune's newsgatherer Alfred ("Jake") Lingle (TIME, June 23), he left his position to Deputy Commissioner John H. Alcock. While Chicago waited, Mayor William Hale Thompson allowed this half-appointment to dangle almost a week without official recognizance, then suddenly issued a statement: "Alcock . . . desired to retain his. . . standing as First Deputy Commissioner in lieu of being appointed by me as Commissioner of Police. . . . My instruction to him is: drive the crooks and gangsters out of Chicago...
Total Cook benefactions to Michigan amount to $20,000,000. include the celebrated Lawyer's Club, Martha Cook Dormitory (in memory of his mother), an administration building, a law research library, none of which, according to Michigan legend, he ever went to see. preferring to retain his conceptions of them from the architectural drawings...
...lends this process through making liquor less accessible. But this end is also achieved by the English system of restricted licensing. When the situation is thus reduced to its fundamentals, it is hard to see that our "noble experiment" could not advantageously be replaced by one which would retain the nobility of purpose without the accompanying disruption of the whole life of the nation...