Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hargett of Kansas City: I suggest that you cease having political powwows on the Sabbath Day, such as you have had recently; that you cease making the Sabbath a holiday for boating and fishing and that you attend church regularly as an example to the young men of our nation...
...shut off gossip about currency stabilization, Secretary Morgenthau picked Spain for his holiday, planned to keep out of France, booked his passage back on the Italian liner Rex. In his absence President Roosevelt warned all U. S. citizens to stay off Italian ships. Hence the obedient Mr. Morgenthau changed his itinerary, headed for Paris to take the Normandie's boat train. Only "accidentally" in the French capital, the Secretary of the Treasury nevertheless improved his time by twice chatting with Finance Minister Régnier. As a result, the Bourse hummed with rumors that the two men were talking...
Fuad's official anniversary celebration brought forth more royal salutes banging from the bastions, the proclamation of a national holiday, and swarms of British planes buzzing overhead. Two days later, as a reminder of Britain's might, 10,000 British and Egyptian troops paraded through the streets. The Egyptian Cabinet voted an extra $1,000,000 for war materials, all of which must be spent in Britain, and War Minister Mohammed Tawfik Abdalla Pasha announced that Egyptian conscripts whose terms of service are about to expire will be held under arms until the present emergency is passed...
Exhilarated by publication of the fact that 13 members of the squad were on State payrolls (see p. 32), Ohio State, a Big Ten favorite along with Minnesota, took a holiday against Drake...
...permit one of his priests to become a bank president. Belgian-born, Rev. Cyril Stevens, 65, has for 21 years been pastor of small Ticonderoga's only Catholic church, St. Mary's. When Ticonderoga's National Bank looked shaky during the Bank Holiday of 1933, Father Stevens it was-his church being a stockholder and large depositor-who singlehanded saved the bank. The small, dynamic priest buttonholed Ticonderogans, bluntly demanded or cleverly cajoled contributions. Today Ticonderoga National Bank has some $1,000,000 in assets. In gratitude its directors elected Father Stevens to their board, made...