Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Questioned as to whether he thought Japanese living in California would stay there or move to another part of the U. S., he replied: "I personally believe that a majority are determined to remain where they are. There is a group of exclusionists who are agitating to deprive American-born Japanese of their American citizenship, but I do not believe there will be any trouble if the Japanese population does not increase much. I hear some Japanese immigrants arriving at Seattle were mistreated by immigration officials, but I do not believe this is the fault of the American Government...
...Christiania, Norway, the International Federation of University Women finished its Convention in the Grand Hall of Christiania University; the visiting educators set forth for their 19 respective countries. During their stay, the women had marched in solemn procession through the streets, to be welcomed at the Grand Hall as guests of the Norwegian Government; had been addressed on individual morals in politics by Fridtjof Nansen, famed explorer, scientist, statesman, author; had elected, as President of their Congress, Virginia Gildersleeve,* Dean of Barnard College, Manhattan; had resolved to collect a $1,000,000 fund for international fellowships for university women...
...pays one-fifth of the costs of the British occupation, she has much on her side of the argument. Under British rule, however, the Sudan has been developed to a pitch undreamed-of in recent Egyptian history, and, having made this desert a prosperous land, the British intend to stay. A compromise is expected in London...
...remainder of his speech was corroborative of what has been above described. He ended : "Perhaps I may be allowed to add a personal note to express gratitude for the very cordial way in which I, as head of the British Government, was received by all parties during my short stay in Paris...
President Charles E. Mitchell, when interviewed, proved gratified but cautious in predictions. "It does not necessarily mean that the bank's assets will stay constantly above the billion-dollar mark," he stated, "for a bank's resources advance and decline just as figures of car loadings or of steel tonnage rise and fall from month to month ... it tends to show that today this country's banks are in better shape than ever before to carry on the financial work that they, as banks, are expected...