Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shut down, throw out 25,000 workers, whereas 50,000 cotton garment workers were primed to strike to enforce the President's order. But President Roosevelt was not yet ready to force this issue of his own making to the fighting point. Abruptly he announced a two-week stay of his order, asked the new National Industrial Recovery Board to appoint a three-man committee to investigate and recommend changes...
...President Roosevelt this seems like too many political jobs for his P. M. G. Last winter when the President was gently shaking government officials out of their party jobs, Jim Farley promised to relinquish his State post. Last week he blandly announced: ". . . Governor Lehman indicated a desire that I stay as chairman, and I am happy to do so, and do what I can to aid the party's victory this fall...
...birds and recording their habits in soft, warm colors that suggest Japanese prints. Son of amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher who gave his name to the Brasher Warbler, he got his art training in Tiffany & Co.'s engraving department and from a Portland, Me. photo-engraver. For stay-at-home ornithologists and bird lovers he has made 100 twelve-volume sets of reproductions, each colored by hand. These sets sell for $2,500 each. Among the purchasers are Ogden Reid, Richard Beatty Mellon, Edward Stephen Harkness. Collectors less rich may buy individual prints for $15, a three-volume...
Banned from Vassar's campus are alcoholic beverages, student-owned automobiles. But the young women are free to drink discreetly in designated Poughkeepsie saloons, smoke almost anywhere they please, stay out late at night, get married while still undergraduates. With President MacCracken determined to make responsible adults of them, they have attained almost complete self-government. Campus potentates are the president of Student's Association, the chief justice of Student's Court...
...fortnight, it looked as if the $500 trophy which has been in Tiffany's Manhattan vaults since 1857 would presently go back to England, whence it came in 1851. When Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's white Rainbow won the next four, it looked as though the Cup would stay in the U. S. for another year at least. But no one could be sure-not even Skipper Vanderbilt himself. As he finished ahead in that sixth race early this week, red flags of protest were run up on both ships to leave the series' outcome in doubt...