Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miners' Federation delegates in London at which A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, bitter-ender Communist secretary of the Miners' Federation, reputedly admitted that the miners may have to accept a lower wage than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated by the Eight Hours Act (TIME, July 12 et seq.) which is the keystone of Premier Baldwin's anti-strike program. ¶ Learned that ten Church of England Bishops and twelve Nonconformist dignitaries had drawn up a proposal...
...toddled down from it, an obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment of the abdication agreement of 1912 whereby he is entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun Wu that Henry P'u-yi, who now resides quietly in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, has not even received the absolute minimum of $500,000 per annum promised him (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) when he was forced to sign his "supplemental abdication...
...consulted the internationally famed Belgian financiers, M. Francqui and onetime Premier Theunis. By their advice decrees were drafted providing: 1) Transfer of the state-owned telegraphs, telephones and railways to a private monopoly, which will issue 3,000,000 preferred shares at 500 francs each, the state to retain possession of the common stock. 2) The sums thus raised, together with those realized from heavier taxes, drastic state economies and national lotteries, to be employed as a vast franc-stabilizing fund. 3) Exchange operations, especially the sale of Belgian francs to be supervised by the state and speculation discouraged...
Those who saw Paul Berlenbach win the world's lightheavyweight championship last year from that sly old Irish Reynard, Michael McTigue, were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against...
...Hastings obtained from Germany a zebra stallion which he bred to white Arabian mares, percherons and common farm mares, the percherons bearing the best foals. The offspring resemble the ordinary mule in their deep chests, large necks, strong legs, but retain the gaudy stripes of their wild African forebears...