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Word: retains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the Fatherland Chancellor Adolf Hitler thundered last week in election speeches that no matter how Germans vote March 4 his Government will retain power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nazi Notes | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...Commonwealth Edison Co. and of Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Similar action is expected from the third big Insull operating company, Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Because Insull Jr. knows the companies in & out, James Simpson who succeeded Insull Sr. as chairman of the three concerns, will retain him as his assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insull Inquest | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Since the first inter-House squash league standing was published three weeks ago, there have been many changes. Leadership in the A league passes from Lowell to Leverett, Leverett winning 36 matches against Lowell's 31. Eliot still retain the leadership of the B league with 30 matches to her credit but close behind are Adams and Lowell with 27. Lowell now leads in the C league, with a safe margin. In the D league Dunster has passed Leverett. League A Won Lost Leverett 36 14 Lowell 31 19 Kirkland 28 17 Eliot 21 24 Adams 17 28 Dunster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-House Squash League Standing | 2/25/1933 | See Source »

...Morris M. Einson of Long Island City, L. I., went vacationing in the West Indies, leaving behind him a business which had increased its payroll 250% since last summer, was making 3,000,000 jigsaw puzzles a week, and had become so prosperous that it could retain smart Lawyer Mabel Walker Willebrandt to fight the Government's contention that it owed a tax of 10% under the new amusement excise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Puzzle Profits | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...unemployed who have had a college training. Its detailed alms are well summed up by the authors: "Actuated by a sincere belief that society should aid us until we can find positions, we demand unemployment insurance for jobless graduates. . .and free courses in graduate schools to help us retain our professional skill that we may be of some value when society needs us again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE SWIM | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

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