Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many of the offices closed at noon. You'd think they'd stay open all day trying to get people off relief rolls and back into jobs...
...Mont., Alex Zwanetzck, sentenced to 30 days in jail, told the judge: "I want 90 days or nothing. My girl friend is doing 90 days in jail now. We're going to be married when she gets out. I haven't anything else to do and I want to stay in jail until her time's up." Alex got 90 days...
...mills in northern Alabama. Of the State's 35,000 textile workers the union estimated 22,000 were on strike, while employers set the figure at 13,000. Well aware that cotton goods have been piling up in warehouses, employers took the strike philosophically, announced the mills would stay shut indefinitely, declared the union was "striking against NRA." Union leaders announced that if the strike was not settled by the time of their national convention (Aug. 10), it would be made nationwide...
Bonthron's customary strategy is to stay close behind a rival he fears, scare him into running fast, cut him down in the last 200 yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring rodeo and softened by rain, these two great milers let their second string men&151;Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock...
...Chicago only six of the 20 major hotels have avoided receivership or bankruptcy since Depression. Among the other 14 are the hotels operated by the Hotel Sherman Co. (the quiet Ambassador East, the gay Ambassador West, the sporty Sherman, the Fort Dearborn where railroad men like to stay), and the roomy, rambling Hotel Drake which has been operated since 1932 by its architect, Benjamin H. Marshall. Fortnight ago the president of Hotel Sherman Co., Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, Chicago's best-known hotelkeeper, followed his four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week...