Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with the British and Russians in their desire to keep China weak? . . . As we wrest the Pacific islands from Japan at such cost in American blood, do we retain them or return them to the various claimant nations...
...definite estimate can be given. I view of the unstable conditions, chiefly the larger number than expected of returning upperclassmen planning to live in the Houses, College officials seen pleased at the new arrangement which will permit the Freshmen to live together in their own quarters and still retain connection with House activities through the eating plan...
...suddenly announced that Grosset & Dunlap had been acquired by a three-firm combination: Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club (575,000 membership) and staid old Harper & Bros. The reprint house, purred Mr. Cerf, with no bow to Mr. Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather than a caviar market...
Said Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard last week, "The enemy's position is not nearly so bad as we would like to believe, for in the Japanese inner citadel they retain great concentrated strength...
...intra-club debate in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night, the Harvard Debate Council discussed the question "Resolved: that the United States Government should retain postwar ownership and operation of the defense industries under its control." The decision was awarded to the affirmative...