Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baker Krusack is Jencic's confidant and civic tutor. He got Jencic's citizenship papers for him at the City Hall and delivered with them this speech: "Now . . . you belong here and nobody can run over you. If anybody makes trouble for you, stand right up to him and tell him not to forget who you are. . . . The new nationalities are according to jobs. Some of these days nobody will ever say a man is a Swiss or a Slav or anything like that; they will say he is a plumber or a baker or a machinist...
...mind telling you and the world that I believe a license for light wines and beers would be a great improvement over the present Prohibition laws. ... I find a good many of the members of Congress feel just about as I do but lack the moral courage to stand up and vote as they believe." Three weeks later Senator Gould reported to the company his progress as a winemaker: "It [two kegsful] was working quite lively. In fact the pressure was so great that the head of the kegs was bulged. I worked the gas off gradually and finally...
...long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain...
...White House reception of Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of Illinois' Negro Congressman. I. C. Trotman of Suffolk, who had telegraphed Mrs. Hoover that her act had cost the Hoovercrats 25,000 votes in Virginia, resigned in protest from the executive committee when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President Hoover had appointed as postmaster at Blenheim, Va., one Thornton Nightingale, Negro Republican...
...price for every week that the goods remained unpurchased. Thus a dress might have a first price of $25, and, if not sold at this figure, go down to $22, to $20. to $18 until someone finally bought it. Many a thrifty Boston housewife, eyeing some Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price. Forward-looking Brother Edward also secured for Filene's site a strategic corner where Boston's rapid transit trunk lines (Washington Street subway and Dorchester-Cambridge subway) meet. Generous, impulsive, Brother Edward Albert...