Word: retains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the hands of one Harry Whitney, who has since described himself as the Hauptmanns' "business manager." At first Hauptmann refused to have any lawyer, discarding several of his wife's selection. By the end of his first week's imprisonment, however, he had agreed to retain James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn. It was Lawyer Fawcett who unsuccessfully fought Governor Lehman's extradition warrant before The Bronx County Supreme Court. He was subsequently succeeded by Edward J. Reilly. also of Brooklyn, who has an impressive record for getting his clients off murder charges. Story was that...
Although your correspondent appreciates your attempt to tone down the frantic demands of Harvard graduates for a "big-time" football team, I cannot permit to go unnoticed the following statements in the editorial in yesterday's paper. It states: "The majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them." There is absolutely no support whatever for the statement that at Harvard large endowments depend...
...majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them. Yet they look back on Harvard to remember in distortion a different organization and a different set of values; they also do not realize that reflection differs from actual experience...
...politicians in his Cabinet remained politicians. When he asked their unanimous support last week they agreed 11-to-8 that the Cabinet should "submit" his demands to Chamber and Senate. Ominously the potent bloc of six Radical Socialist Cabinet Ministers under paunchy Edouard Herriot served notice that they retain "liberty of action" to oppose their own Premier in debate if they choose...
Just how Herr Thyssen could retain his purchased grip, once the Nazis had all Germany at their mercy, few gropers have tried to explain. Great was their perturbation last week as Tycoon Thyssen popped up at Buenos Aires, 5,900 miles from Berlin...