Word: retains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though unwilling to deny that Congress might legally set up a pension system applying strictly to workers whose jobs took them back & forth across State lines, Judge Wheat allowed himself to doubt whether any compulsory system could retain the incentives to gratitude and loyalty found in voluntary systems. Mightily offended was his sense of justice at inclusion in the present system of some 143,000 workers who had lost their jobs in the year before it was adopted. "Some of these men," snapped he, "were dismissed for the good of the service. I can see no reasonable relation between giving...
...promising number of candidates from last year's championship Freshman team has also turned out, some of them being expected to give the veterans stiff competition to retain their positions on the Varsity squad. Freshmen who have not already signed up may do so at Harry Cowles's Shop on Mt. Auburn Street...
...Outdoor Advertising Association of America held its 44th annual convention in Chicago. In the "Hangar" ballroom atop the Hotel LaSalle the billboard men praised their new Traffic Audit Bureau, which does much the same job that the Audit Bureau of Circulation does for publications. And they voted unanimously to retain a ruling laid down in 1915: no hard liquor advertising on poster panels. But as before members may accept such advertising for painted boards, and beer will still be acceptable on both kinds...
When the London Evening Standard ran a contest this autumn to discover a better name for Nova Pilbeam, some of the answers were Beryl Beamstar, Nova Cinemata, June, Dawn, and Marina Pilbeam. She decided to retain her own name, which she considers less whimsical than Myrna Loy or Greta Garbo. Her father is Arnold Pilbeam, for the last 15 years stage manager for the late Sir Nigel Playfair...
...world of military hostility and takes heart at any disturbances in Europe which may divert the attention of the world from her amibitious schemes in the pacific. The United States and Europe must either cooperate in taking a definitely hostile stand against further Japanese aggression if they intend to retain their authority unimpaired, or be prepared to resign it to Japanese militarists forthwith...