Word: holds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Unlike General Dawes M. Briand does not hold that an embassy is or should be "secondary"' in comparison with a chamber of commerce. He would deplore that a department of commerce should gradually outrank a state department. The trump M. Briand shook down his rumpled sleeve last week is a big red Ace of Diplomacy. But the stakes?a diplomat always plays for stakes?are Commerce...
...French Department of Harvard University will hold its oratorical contest for the "Medaille France-Amerique" tonight at Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building at 5 o'clock. Six undergraduates will give talks in French on current events in France...
...hold no brief either for or against Prohibition. But I do hold a brief for this proposition: that the height of all absurdities of government regulation and tinkering was reached when a police statute was written into the Constitution. . . . If you write police regulations into that great instrument, you have drawn it down to the level of a city ordinance...
...work through churches. . . . We hold meetings and agitate through literature. The agitation rests on the basis that alcohol is a habit-forming drug and should be suppressed. . . . Sometimes we interview Senators and Representatives. . . . We don't write bills [for Congress]. . . .We obtain reports about candidates for appointments and give the President the information. . . . We never permit the League to be maneuvered into assuming responsibility for any appointee...
Late next day, Governor Moody denied having told Capt. Hamer to hold his fire. He proclaimed martial law, sent more militiamen, restored order. He was interviewed on the telephone from 5,000 mi. away by a London Daily Mail reporter who exclaimed: "Well, well! Is this a common occurrence in Texas? . . . thanks and cheerio...