Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Give me the list. I should like to find out if Senators really want to listen to me. The first name on the list is that of the Senator from Colorado [Mr. Adams]. I should like to know if the Senator from Colorado really wants to stay here and listen to me this evening...
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, the taciturn young secretary was invited to stay on at the White House. Soon the two were warm friends. "If I could only make you smile, George," said the Rough-Rider Colonel, "I could make you President of the United States." Roosevelt 1 could not make George Cortelyou smile but he could and did make him first Secretary of the new Department of Commerce & Labor. Year later Secretary Cortelyou resigned to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee, manager of President Roosevelt's 1904 campaign. Next he became Postmaster General and, finally...
...godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each had about $15,000 worth of gold. Just as they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them all a fortune if they would stay on with him. They might have been tempted if bandits had not picked up their trail and given them a bad scare before the federal soldiers drove them...
From the post-War collapse until last year there was one sure way of making money in the sugar market: sell short, stay short. With few interruptions the trend was steadily down-from 20? per lb. in 1920 to a historic low during Depression of less than six-tenths of a cent. By last week, however, U.S. sugar, having climbed back to the highest level since 1928 (2.7?) looked sweeter than it had for a decade. And though nearly every sugar man had some grudge against the new order, recovery was largely the result of the Government's grim...
...Ford upped the minimum to $6 where it stayed until 37 days after the stockmarket crash ten years later. Then in a singlehanded attempt to stay the Depression he raised the rate to $7. But by 1932, when Ford Motor Co. succeeded in losing $74,000,000 in twelve short months, the minimum was down to $4. Last year Mr. Ford restored the pre-War scale. Last week he upped it to $6. More than one-half the 126,000 Ford employes on present payrolls benefited by the raise. The rest, who earn more than the minimum, were rewarded with...