Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprise visit. The Health Department's laboratories, which he visited last week, were the first place he found everyone on time and hard at work. After that dynamic Mayor LaGuardia was inclined to make an exception to the city's age-limit rule, let Assistant Director Williams stay...
...crammed with a good French education and good French politics. When he was 19 he was shipped back to Annam and Annam's real boss. French Governor General Pierre Pasquier, ushered him into the sacred Red City (TIME. Oct. 3, 1932). Bao Dai understood that he was to stay there, remote and mysterious to his people. His ancestors set the example; the French gave the orders...
...Shaw family and their neighbors makes rural life seem as lively as a cycle on Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George's wife prepares to run away. In the summer young Ollie Shaw flirts with Doris and Brother George Shaw's children get the croup. In the autumn...
...company offered him $25,000 per year for a five-year trip around the world. Inventor Zerk did better than that. He went to work and developed new gadgets which he sold the following year for $500,000 to Stewart-Warner, together with an agreement to stay out of the lubricating business for eight years...
...Stewart-Warner management had been astute, they would also have induced Mr. Zerk to agree to stay out of Stewart-Warner's business. For Mr. Zerk happened to be the fourth largest stockholder (5,000 shares) and had no intention of watching his investments depreciate without a murmur. Last spring Mr. Zerk launched a ferocious proxy campaign to oust the management, charging them with pocketing unconscionable fat bonuses, with gross inefficiency and general lack of business acumen...