Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Conservative whips, anxious to plot their party strategy for the ensuing parliamentary term, have threatened, blustered, begged the complacent Labor Government for some hint of the make-up of the soon-to-be-announced Budget. Did the Labor Party intend to retain the old protective duties on sugar, silk? How about foreign automobiles? Grinning Laborites refused to answer. Last week, onetime (1924-29) Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston ("Winnie") Churchill joined the battle. Rising moon-faced from his bench, he glared over his wide wing collar at his successor, wizened Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
...counsel for the Delaware & Hudson R. R. in its effort to retain a lease on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh. He had been engaged to help defend minority Ford stockholders, other than Senator James Couzens, in the government's futile attempt to levy extra taxes on them. He had argued and lost the Interborough's 7¢ fare case in the Supreme Court. He was special attorney for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in his successful ouster of Col. Robert Wright Stewart from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He had defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York...
...appear before onetime Emperor Hsuan T'ung in the Yang Hsin Palace of the Forbidden City. There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed "Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors. He was also allowed to retain the title "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" which is derived from the fact that during the T'ang Dynasty court actors called themselves "Disciples of the Pear Orchard" because they performed in a palace bordered with pear trees. Few would deny any title, however lofty, to a man who, in addition...
...with five victories in League A, of Sigma Alpha Mu with three in Alpha League, and of Kappa Mu with two in Beta League are the teams whose records are perfect so far. Law 1B suffered one defeat in League B, but five wins enable them to retain the lead in their league...
...stay slender through the use of the respondents' products." The respondent also "caused various forms of advertising matter to contain such statements as 'Every woman who fears overweight finds keen interest in this new and common sense way to keep a slender, fashionable figure,' 'Women retain slender figure,' and . . . 'Overweight is banished,' when in truth and in fact . . . reduction of flesh . . . will not necessarily result from smoking of respondents' brand of cigarets." The respondent agreed to stop misleading statements and to announce as such all paid-for testimonials...