Word: holds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...affable smile and the corners of his mouth went down into a grim expression. After he had returned silently to Washington, the V. of F. W. went to Annapolis for a crab feast, which afflicted several hundred delegates with ptomaine poisoning. When enough of them had recovered to hold a final business session, the organization adopted (873-to-637) a resolution demanding the repeal of the 18th Amendment...
...proposal alternative to the report of the Simon Commission [TIME, June 30 et ante] and much more liberal." This means that the Viceroy himself is a rebel against the Simon Report, which nearly all Indians consider too reactionary and which a probable plurality of Englishmen (including all the Conservatives) hold to be too liberal...
...time for the Trade Union movement to begin to regulate the bankers," said he. "So long as we leave the control of credit in their hands, just so long will the workers be left to grind out wealth like squirrels in cages, while the bankers hold the keys to the cages...
...enough not to frighten seriously stand-pat-Laborite free traders, an 8% levy might serve to hold the votes of other Laborites now tempted to bolt into the Rothermere or Beaverbrook tariff camps. The 8% scheme, it was revealed last week, has been worked out for Scot MacDonald -no great economist-by the Special Commission he appointed last spring to report on tariffs as an antidote to unemployment (TIME, March...
...Peruvian highways. Moneyed Peruvians evade the road gangs by paying a highway tax, so do other Peruvians who have friends in office. Indians who have neither money nor influence must work on the roads not only for the legal two weeks but so long as greedy contractors can hold them...