Word: retains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive branch instead of, as now, an independent administrative office of Government, similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission. I wish to retire to be free to join with others in opposing such change without having it construed that such opposition was prompted by self-interest in wishing to retain the office...
Last week a veiled face appeared in London. Seething Indian retainers and a cordon of British police joined forces to make certain that a visage mellowed by 65 summers should retain its sanctity inviolate...
...with E. C. Plummer and W. S. Hill, Commissioners of the Shipping Board. Important matters were believed brewing because the President wishes the disposition of the Government's merchant marine placed in the hands of Admiral Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the Shipping Board wishes to retain its powers. Recommendations to this end may be placed by the President before the next Congress...
This year Mr. Wiener promises the book at an even earlier date and will retain all the features of last year as well as several new ones. The book will contain about 360 pages devoted to complete undergraduate and graduate activities, club lists, dormitory lists, a directory of the University with home and college addresses of all members, athletic statistics, and a telephone directory. It will be attractively bound in soft red leather and will be sold at the same price as last year, two dollars and one half if subscribed for in advance...
...John Rogers on the seaplane had reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...