Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard Work." The government called out army units to maintain order. The Social Democratic Central Organization of Trade Unions ordered all its member unions to stop their strikes or be expelled. Chief strategist of Finland's courageous defense against the Red assault was a brilliant, little-known Socialist named Unto Varjonen. He is a minister-without-portfolio, but Finns know that his specific job is to fight Communists...
Some people might say that the downfall of Fusao Negishi was due to unsettled postwar conditions, or to his own greed. But Negishi himself would probably maintain that it was due to his wife's petulant desire for a vacation in the country...
...collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the party or parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area...
First, should the federal Government provide money to improve education in states not rich enough to maintain good public schools? Could this be done without threatening the independence of the public schools? Harry Truman answered yes to both questions and incorporated the program in his Fair Deal. The U.S. Senate agreed when it passed its aid-to-education bill. But if such aid became a permanent policy of Government, would the nation's schools ultimately and inevitably fall into the hands of federal control? Should parochial and private schools which teach Christianity be excluded from federal aid and left...
...industry. (The Laborites have also indicated that their nationalizing drive is almost spent.) On social services, however, the Tories go as far as Labor-if not a bit farther. Said the Tory pamphlet: "We regard [the social services] as mainly our own handiwork. We shall endeavor faithfully to maintain the range and scope of these services, and the rates of benefits." The Tories promised increased government spending on farm subsidies, rural housing, roads and forests, pensions to widows, spinsters and the aged, and free drugs to "private patients" who choose to stay outside the National Health plan...