Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also defeated by the preponderantly Lutheran electorate was a proposition to let cinema houses stay open on Sunday...
...state would get the kind of enforcement it was ready to give. Drys were told, in effect, they could hardly expect better enforcement in Wet states. Many a Wet wondered whether this policy, if it was a policy, would be extended to its logical conclusion of letting Wet states stay Wet. Although the Justice Department shied away from formulating any specific division of enforcement responsibilities, it apparently meant to confine its activities to interstate liquor shipments and large illicit plants, leaving states to deal with petty leggers and the Treasury to cope with alcohol diversion (under Commissioner Doran) and smuggling...
...Each of them receives ten lire a day and when it is necessary their families also are supported. Each man is allowed to follow his profession on the island. The climate, which is the same as that of Capri, is healthy. Nobody-now remember this-ever has had to stay there his full term. Not one of them has been compelled to serve all the time for which he was sentenced. I leave no one there for more than two or three years and after that time the men released are not compelled to live in a certain place. They...
...than enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment. Nearly every reputable indication of public feeling has been against the anti-alcohol laws. It does not take an interpreter to read the writing that is becoming more and more distinct on the American political wall. Whether or not it is here to stay, Prohibition is certainly the biggest political issue in this country today and the good old practice of avoiding the issue is fortunately becoming a fatal mistake...
...succeeded Washington as President, was first occupant of the White House. When Thomas Jefferson was elected to succeed him, Adams was so enraged that he refused to be present at Jefferson's inauguration. (Only other such case: son John Quincy Adams, fifth U. S. President, would not stay to greet incoming President Andrew Jackson.) Quick-tempered, ambitious, vain, John Adams was never personally popular. Short and fat, he was nicknamed "His Rotundity" by Washington wits...