Word: retains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messers. Hart and Curtiss would do well to retain a lawyer if they intend to spend their days making criminal accusations after carefully misreading the morning paper. Statements of this sort whether verbal or written, do great harm to accused and in their impact bring shame to the University and in their disapproval, ridicule...
...Decree for Safeguarding the Bread Supply," Agriculture Minister Richard-Wralther Darré requisitioned all wheat and rye crops for the Third Reich. To guarantee enforcement, Heinrich Himmler, with a wave of his pince-nez, directed his State police to supervise all harvesting, transporting, and storage activities. Farmers may retain only enough for their personal appetite, feeding hired hands, and seed...
...that the Sudan was entirely reserved to Britain, and her garrisons remained quartered throughout Egypt. It was actually Benito Mussolini-the Dictator buttered the Egyptians with many blandishments while he was making for Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.)- who convinced the British that if they are to retain effective control of Egypt they must do so even more unobtrusively. Thus a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was signed by Premier Nahas and Mr. Anthony Eden on cream-colored parchment tied with blue ribbons at the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept...
...Independent Sovereign State" by the Treaty of 1922, the new Treaty is one of "Military Alliance/' intended to flatter Egyptians with the notion that they are held in esteem by the British as allies on equal terms. Held the Egyptians continue to be, for Britain is to retain 10,000 troops in the Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base at Alexandria, pays rent...
...from $29.000.000 to $27,000,000. Even in the June quarter when Chrysler had little to charge off to strikes, the company's profit margin showed a sharp drop, from 19.8% in 1930 to 14.7% in 1937. Labor and material might be rising but any company that can retain nearly 15? operating profit from each $1 of sales still looked good to Wall Street, and Chrysler stock closed last week at $115 per share, up from the June...