Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons in Russian cities of any size must present themselves to the G. P. U. (secret police) and state good reasons for their presence in the city. If the reasons seem good to the G. P. U. the applicant will receive an identification paper entitling him or her to stay in town. Otherwise the paper will be withheld, the citizen will be forced to leave the city for work on a farm or in one of the remote mines or factories from which Soviet labor has shown a tendency to flee. 3) To conciliate the peasants. Dictator Stalin is expected...
This spring the Clubs will take a trip to Bermuda, playing at hotels and clubs during the spring vacation. No definite dates have been released for the concerts in Bermuda, although it is under-stood that a performance is to be given each evening of the stay. This is the first time the Clubs have ever made a spring trip, and if it is successful it will probably replace the Christmas tours which were held up to this year...
...matter how much they may have wanted to leave Russia, Soviet citizens have had to stay home and work for their State. Exit visas have simply not been issued, except to a few privileged persons (mostly members of the Communist Party) for "reasons of State." Aged relatives in Russia of "White Russians" abroad have been especially treasured by the Soviet Government as likely to receive remittances in valuta (foreign money) which is needed for the Five-Year Plan. Grant such people an exit visa? Not likely...
...earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied at Rochester Theological Seminary on a scholarship was graduated in 1909 to become pastor of Rochester's Lake Avenue Baptist Church. This congregation he built up to 2,500 during his 20-year stay...
...Showman Gates built up a substantial troupe. Names like Silas Christofferson, Lincoln Beachey, Art Smith, Katherine Stinson appeared on his flamboyant handbills. In early days he netted perhaps $2,000 merely for a 10-minute flight above the fair grounds, and not always did his patched-up planes stay up ten minutes. Later it was stunting, wing-walking, plane-to-plane jumps, standing on looping planes, that brought in gate receipts...