Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before he retired, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat self-importantly down, wrote the President of the U. S. a letter announcing his regret that "I am not able to go with you on this Supreme Court fight." Having thus given the President fair warning, 66-year-old Richmond Pearson Hobson slept soundly, ate a hearty breakfast next morning, but toned up his overcoat for the trip to his office, fell dead of a heart attack...
That night Mr. King had a long session before the same hearth where the Canadian trade agreement had its genesis, slept in a White House bed. Next morning he returned to his Legation in silence. He might have made no more than a social visit, but not an observer in Washington believed it. Too many coincidences were involved...
...Another sit-down strike never occurred. In a leather plant at Grand Haven, Mich., 300 workers organized a "stay-in." They did their work by day, slept in the plant by night. The management of the plant did nothing, for the stay-inners were trying to prevent sit-downers from seizing the plant. Said the leader of the stay-inners: "We have nothing to gain from C. I. O. organization here and we have taken steps to make certain that our jobs will not be jeopardized...
...rest of that day she behaved in her usual introspective way. She went to bed and slept as usual, rose as usual. Next day she casually told her mother what she had done. Her mother drove Dema Dunlap to Dr. Kosterlitz, who refused to believe the young woman's story until he saw the projecting butt of the spike. He rushed her to a hospital where he extracted the nail. Then she fainted. There was some chance for her recovery, for a person can live with a large part of his brain gone. In Harvard's anatomical museum...
...House on an old cane, he hobbled out an hour later with two canes, one of them silver-headed, inscribed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said William Andrew to the press: "They let me in and the President had me sit down. I told him about when President Johnson died. I slept with him six days and six nights in Tennessee after he had a stroke. I was only 18 or 19 when he died, but in them days, you know, boys were just like men. . . . President Roosevelt is my kind of white folks. You don't get nervous with...