Word: retainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Candidate Beck, frankly Wet, sought to persuade the people to retain under him and U. S. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette the same Progressive Republicanism (conservative Socialism) which they learned and loved under the late, great La Follette Sr. There was suspicion that, far from being Smith-beaters, Candidate Beck and the La Follette contingent would ultimately stump for the Brown Derby...
...believe, everything considered, that I should retain the Eighteenth Amendment (because I could not do otherwise) and that I should resolve to apply it. I should continue the suppression of the saloon and of all public sale of alcohol. I have never seen the American saloon, but judging from what I have heard of it, it was a dangerous institution. On the other hand, I should try to induce Congress to amend the Volstead act so as to permit the private consumption of wine and beer in the states which desire it. But I should place a heavy tax upon...
...only U. S. product over which the U. S. chose to retain its right of export restriction was helium gas. Helium, unplentiful in nature, is the non-inflammable dirigible-filler; the beneficent mixing gas to save divers from the "bends...
...decline a challenge to duel and yet retain one's honor unimpaired is a problem which periodically presents itself to the Prime Minister of France...
...very remarkable how that great invasion of women into the workaday world has receded. Industry is not stationary; had women shown themselves to possess the necessary skill and the inclination to retain their place in it they could not have been replaced so easily. . . . Even a feminist must be aware that the reason, and the sole reason, why women have retained any hold on such posts is economic. They are permitted to do a man's work because they do it more cheaply. The reason they are able to sell their labor at a lower price is because women...