Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal super-regulation of interstate movement of power, but believes the solution will be found in coordinated state regulation with the assistance of the Federal Government. But the states must meet each other halfway. Maine has a law prohibiting the transmission of electric current across its borders, passed to retain Maine's waterpower for her own benefit. The people of Maine will not act the " dog in the manger," however, if a general plan is adopted, said William E. Guerney, President of the State (of Maine) Public Service Commission. Other state officials approved the plan and promised to help...
...farmer. And that is the sole reason why John W. Weeks and scores of corporation lawyers have exerted their cunning to prevent me. ... It would be well worth while for the waterpower and fertilizer financiers who control this situation to pay $100,000,000 if thereby they can retain the endless millions which they now make through exorbitant prices. My offer is still before Congress. I shall not withdraw it. There is nothing whatever for me to explain. There is nothing that John W. Weeks can explain though he talks from now until he leaves public life. . . . Let him explain...
...close this evening, when all candidates in the University who have not yet tried out will be tested at 7 o'clock in Sever 11. On Monday and Thursday, the first two evenings for the trials, 180 men, a record number, appeared. Of these the Glee Club expects to retain 115. The number of men yet to be accepted is not limited: any man who shows promise by his singing the scale will be retained...
...scale will be required of the men who appear at the try-outs for the University Glee Club in Sever 11 at 7 o'clock. The requirements have been limited to a single test, since Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Glee Club, desires to retain all men whose voices show possibilities of improvement with instruction and practice...
Coach Stevens reiterated the statement that these crews have been put together without regard to their letter, with the exception of Crew D, which is composed of those members of last year's Freshman crew that are available this fall. These men have been retained as a unit to give the coaches an opportunity of looking them over to the best advantage. These combinations will be shifted throughout the week to give all the strokes a chance to show their wares. The next cut and definite arrangement of the crews will be within a week, Coach Stevens decided late last...