Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crop threatening to depress cotton prices, Southern Congressmen wanted him to use Commodity Credit Corporation's $135,000,000 kitty to grant farmers loans of 10? a lb. on their cotton and to peg the price at 12? a lb. Only assurance that such loans would be repaid lay, according to the President, in legislation to limit next year's crop. Before granting them he wanted as assurance the equivalent of a "banker's acceptance," presumably a guarantee that Congress will pass the kind of strict crop control law which he desires...
Last week newshawks were allowed to see him as he lay in striped pajamas on his sickbed. Hollow-eyed and pale, Ossietzky knew that if he got himself imprisoned again, it would be his death. He gave a buttery account of the gracious, paternal fashion in which the Government had looked after...
...lay kinky-bearded, 64-year-old Thorvald Stauning, Premier of Denmark, after breaking a leg. The New York Times said he tripped over a "grassy knoll" near Loekken while he was showing friends a short cut across sand dunes to the main road from his seaside bungalow. The Associated Press said he fell aboard the yacht Nordsee. The United Press said he was holidaying at his bungalow atop a dune, got out of bed for a stroll in his nightshirt, stumbled in the dark...
Quarantined in an isolation nursery at Callander, Ont. lay Emilie Dionne, third largest (31¾ lb.) of the famed quintuplets. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said the ailment was a respiratory infection, inexplicably " obtained from outside sources." Five days later her four sisters were caught in the rain and all developed colds...
...Philadelphia's General (charity) Hospital last week lay one Mary Bocassini, 27. She was about 1) to have a baby and 2) to die of tuberculosis. Her Roman Catholic husband resolutely cried: "If my wife must die, it is the will of God, and my baby must die. . . . If one must die, both must...