Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haven't been seeing much night life in my trip so far. I have to work too hard on the stage so I'm just too tired to do anything. You know early to bed is the only way to retain your complexion." Yale News...
...peace who share in the fines they impose for liquor law violation).*The Anti-Saloon League pressed the bill as a Wet & Dry issue. The bill was defeated by some 300,000 votes. ... In Cleveland it was voted not to revert to mayoralty form of government, to retain the city manager plan, of which Cleveland is the most populous exponent...
Friday. Reached his office about noon. Read mail and dictated answers. . . . That evening, political meeting?mostly Poles, a people Mr. Baker knows well?about whether or not Cleveland should revert to mayoralty form of government or retain the city-manager plan. Favored city-manager plan, though twice (1912-14; 1914-16) Mayor of Cleveland himself. Quoted his political godfather, the late Tom L. Johnson: "If you'll get a tent and talk sensibly to the people, they'll respond?they'll do what's right?and they can always be trusted to do it." Also said: "I don't think...
...committee headed by the Archbishop of York, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, there is no room in the Abbey for memorials to future eminent dead. Said the Archbishop: "The time has now come when the nation must decide whether or not Westminster Abbey is to retain the place it has held for centuries as the shrine of the nations memorials to great men and women. Delay in making this decision is no longer possible...
...though now in circulation, will bear new designs. The three-penny and sixpenny coins, respectively a little smaller and a little larger than a U. S. dime, will lose the crown on the reverse side and gain a confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will lose its royal coat of arms and the motto, Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense (Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks), on its reverse side and will receive...