Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotland. Standing on the deck of the Normandie, he swelled his chest, flapped his elbows and spoke once more of the firing line: "I want a month's rest so that I can come back to help straighten out the madhouse in Washington. When I return I will stay in Washington for the winter and get on the firing line. The situation looks more & more encouraging for the Republican Party." Walter Evans Edge is one of the worst prophets in the Republican Party. Nevertheless, his words last week had a ring of truth about them. Year...
Although the U. S. Senate almost passed a social reform tax bill in late June, although Franklin Roosevelt ordered Congress to stay in Washington as long as was necessary to pass that important measure, although the House Ways & Means Committee three weeks ago completed its tax hearings, not until last week did Congress & country get a first look at the contentious tax rates. After a month's ado about nothing the Ways & Means Committee finally emerged from a brown study with something specific to talk about. It proposed the following...
South Dakota swept into action. Early last week it shut every one of its relief stations, cutting 19,000 heads of families off relief, ordered the stations to stay shut until farmers had all the harvest help they wanted. Illinois stopped work relief in rural areas. Nebraska prepared to suspend relief allotments to 26 counties, halve them in 15 others. Missouri halted work projects employing 50,000 persons. Michigan cut 46,000 names off its relief rolls. One by one Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi fell into line...
...Louisville & Nashville, he became general manager of Illinois Central in 1904. From there he went to Erie as assistant to the president, later to Seaboard Air Line which he headed for six years and, finally, to C. & O. as president. When the Van Sweringens invited him to stay on as senior vice president under Mr. Bernet he swallowed his pride and accepted...
With Roman temperatures averaging 77° last week and likely to go higher in August and September, 78-year-old Pope Pius XI directed his household to make ready to move out this week for a two-month stay at Castel Gandolfo. the rustic papal snuggery in the Alban Hills...