Word: retainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During World War I, club life in Batavia and Surabaya was trying. Since The Netherlands Indies were neutral, both Britons and Germans were allowed to retain club membership. Arguments and fist fights occurred. Finally the diplomatic Dutch rebuilt their bars with three separated bays-Germans to the right, Britons to the left, Dutchmen buffing between...
...Said he to the grocery manufacturers, further defining his aims and his conception of acceptable Americans: ". . . The businessmen of this country must . . . say to the people of the country: 'We have a program, a program that is American, a program that is not perfect but at least will retain your liberty and your freedom if you follow it. . . ." When that leadership is assumed throughout the United States by our industrialists, our executives . . . we will have less of demagogues and racketeers [and] the damnable doctrines of Socialism and Communism...
...exquisite hostess whose invitations were eagerly sought. More than anyone else, this talented revolutionary-turned-diplomat, daughter of a Tsarist general and a part Finnish mother, would be able to tell Negotiator Stalin just how solid Scandinavian neutrality was, just when and where the Scandinavian countries might fight to retain...
Since you want to know how youth feel about who should decide our entry into war, let me qualify myself. I have no objection to letting Congress retain its age-old power in this matter, providing...
...word document, drawn up last June by Dean Ferguson, the Administration has defended the discharge of the ten assistant professors as a budgetary necessity. Furthermore, the memorandum contends that the Administration leaned over backward in an attempt to retain as many assistant professors as possible...