Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Generals in command of Army Corps areas seldom stay long in one place. Their routine is to spend four years at home stations, three in foreign posts, then home again. The War Department wants them to get familiar with all U. S. fortifications. In a general shakeup of corps commanders last week the department announced these shifts...
Senator Sheppard did all in his power to stay the humming bird's flight. He spent nearly a month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want...
...Rebel Yaku but on the Assyrian Patriarch Mar Shimun, who was deported last week with his father and brother. At once the British Government offered these exiles asylum on the Island of Cyprus to which they flew in a British R.A.F. plane and demanded that King Feisal stay in Bagdad to punish the guilty - whether Christian or Mohammedan. To the Irak Legation in London falcon-eyed King Feisal promptly cabled: "Although everything is normal now in Irak, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason...
...occurred last May in Mexico City, speedily became a triumph. Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement in a newspaper saying that he would conduct it. He describes the effect: "The people did not stay away. They broke down the doors and pushed aside the attendants, saying 'to hell with you!' and the ladies threw fans and the men cheered and some wept and they took 40 sticks away from me for souvenirs...
Just as close a finish was the result of the women's single race, a new event for this year, in which Eleanor Owens shaded Betty Howe with a time of 1 minute, 17 seconds. This time will probably stay unassaulted for a few years, to judge from the disproportionate speeds of the other women's events...