Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a group of producers of any sort cease to make money, they will gradually be reduced in numbers, shifting to more lucrative fields, until the remaining ones have sufficiently large incomes to be induced to stay. What the Government should do is encourage this shift, make it less painful, and above all stimulate, through sound economic policies, other industries to such an extent that an absorption of the unnecessary factors of production may be possible...
Church folk throughout the U. S. began telegraphing Secretary Perkins. The Federal Council of Churches brought Dr. Kagawa's plight to the attention of President Roosevelt. Promptly, on the third day of the good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...
...East 40th, New York City. We try to show each little utility The lack of charm and utter futility Of being bad, and how to be good And stay on the path of rectitude. But if on that road they run amuck, We'll ride them down with the big Mack...
Representatives of the New York City Board, taken aback, groused that Rose had taken four years to find the right diet, that it was now too late. And anyway, could she keep her new figure? Yes, said her attorney. "She is down to normal and she'll stay there." The Commissioner, interested, reserved decision...
Just the same, they could not stay away from the big city. O Haru's sister had gone there and was so lost to shame that she got a job as waitress at a café. O Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like...