Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note was dispatched to the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, General Yasuji Okamura: "Cease hostilities immediately . . . send representatives to receive military instructions from General Ho Ying-chin, Chinese military chief of staff. . . . Japanese troops are temporarily permitted to retain their arms and equipment for the maintenance of public order...
There was muttering in the corridors. But General Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet unanimously accepted his plan for achieving a Fourth Republic. The plan: the French electorate, men & women, would go to the polls next October and decide whether they wish to retain France's old constitution of 1875 or have a new one. At the same time they would elect a unicameral assembly of 600 representatives...
...heavy barrage was fired. Only one Senator took careful aim. Pointing a long, tobacco-stained finger, Colorado's big (200 lb.), bald Republican Eugene Donald Millikin lined up his target: the use of U.S. armed forces under the Charter. He asked: what control would the U.S. retain over its share of an international armed force? Could the U.S. reserve to itself decision over where and how to use its forces? Senator Millikin's close questioning of John Foster Dulles, the Committee's ' G.O.P. adviser on international affairs and the Charter, developed a point of surprise...
Czechoslovakia last week had lost one of the democratic features of which it has always been most proud-its free press. By Government order, newspapers, instead of being privately owned, must henceforth represent political parties, trade unions, youth movements and other organized groups. They retain the right to criticize the Government and individuals so long as they do not impair the safety of the nation...
...wrote, is actually a device to give executives a salary increase "not subject to ordinary income taxes" but only to capital-gains taxes (25%). For example, said angry Mr. Bloomingdale, if Fred Lazarus should make $50,000 by a rise in the price of any stock purchased, "he would retain $37,500 after payment of federal capital-gains tax. For Mr. Lazarus to be able to retain $37,500 a year out of any additional salary . . . subject to ordinary income taxes, his present salary would have to be increased more than...