Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...beyond measure to hear of the sudden passing of my old friend and your Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian. I am very certain that if he had been allowed by Providence to leave us a last message he would have told us that the greatest of all efforts to retain democracy in the world must and will succeed...
Most impressive among the projects now underway is a mural being painted on the wall behind the main stairway in Bunt Hall by John A. Holabird Jr. '42, following the theme that man must retain his individuality despite modern machinery and industrialization. The mural expresses, in effect, the fundamental credo of the course...
...have elected Franklin Roosevelt President. He is your President. He is my President. . . . Nevertheless [we] retain the right, and I will say the duty, to debate the course of our Government. Ours is a two-party system. Should we ever permit one party to dominate our lives entirely, democracy would collapse and we would have dictatorship...
...taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested in the Crown...
There is no assurance, however, that the law will always retain this safeguard. By merely repealing this clause, Congress can rule that registered persons henceforth inducted into the land forces of the United States shall be employed in any war in which the government at the moment, perhaps compelled by imperialistic monopoly interests or mob hysteria, may see fit to engage...