Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Charges: 1) The riots should have been foreseen but were not. 2) Arab outbreaks were precipitated by frustrated Arab political aspirations, for which the British were responsible. 3) British troops and police were insufficient to maintain order in Palestine. 4) Arab interests in the face of Jewish colonization were not safeguarded...
Finland, a country some 30,000 sq. mi. larger than Italy, stretches north from Leningrad to the Arctic Ocean, a sort of buffer between Soviet Russia and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is chiefly known to the U. S. as one of the only three governments in the world* which maintain absolute Prohibition of liquor, and as the country whence come great endurance runners (Paavo Nurmi, Willie Ritola et al.) and house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid. Correspondents have described it as a country riddled with lakes, bootleggers and Bolshevik propagandists. Official Finland, puny before...
President Hoover hoped for three things to maintain the lower tax rate: 1) a sudden increase in customs receipts; 2) $75,000,000 economies in his departments; 3) cash instead of security payments by foreign debtor nations to be applied to current expenditures...
...subjected to more unjust and unwarranted attacks. ... I am conscious of my own integrity. I have never been accustomed to give ground under fire, every personal inclination I have is to fight this thing to a finish. . . . In the past it has been the policy of party leaders to maintain a solid front under enemy fire but as this has not been the policy in the present case, I have reached the conclusion, putting the interest of the Republican party ahead of personal consideration, that I should tender my resignation...
Troubles of Hankow and the Communist army distracted world attention last week from China's other war, that of President Chiang Kai-shek fighting to maintain the Nationalist Government against the insurrection of the Peking warlords. Both factions, as usual, were claiming an equal number of victories, matching their toll of deaths and captures. Torrential floods actually stopped hostilities...