Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joint conference wound up its work on the tax reduction and turned out a compromise that, it was thought, would pass both Houses. The Democratic tit was left in exchange for the Republicans being allowed to retain their tat. Each group was given a sop such as was most likely to secure its vote...
...most telling point made against the Ford offer was that by it the Government would lose for all time its nitrate plants, steam plants and Waco Quarry and receive for them only $5,000,000, whereas under the other plans the Government would retain ownership of plants as well as dams, and receive probably as great or greater profit. Major General C. C. Williams, Chief of Ordnance of the War Department, estimated that under the Ford Plan the Government would receive $115,906,896 in 50 years; under the Power Companies Plan $134,909,320; and under the Hooker-White...
...When the Emperor abdicated in 1912, he was permitted to retain his title for a lifetime, despite the fact that China is a republic...
...were removed returned. ... In 1918 I made my first experiments on senile animals. I took a ram, ten or twelve years of age, that the veterinarian told me might die at any time. He was so weak that his legs trembled when he stood, and he was unable to retain his urine. I grafted upon his glands those of a buck six months of age. In about two months there came a change in his attitude. His apathy, his air of defeat, his sad expression gave way to a vivacity of movement and a belligerent and combative spirit. . . . Instead...
...therefore, clearly of the belief that the Congress should retain Muscle Shoals, provide for its operation directly by the corps of engineers of the army, or by a public corporation ana-lagous to the Panama Railroad Company, and through such operation deal with the power produced in the mass, without entering into retail operation...