Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked if the West Pointers were amused at Harvard's surprise at the allotment of spending money given the cadet corps for their stay in Cambridge last fall, Captain Jones said, "Perhaps they played a bit of bridge on the way up and pooled their money that way. It seems a shame to give them only $1 in Boston and $5 in New York, as is being done for the Dartmouth-Notre Dame game...
Sounding like a regular Dry, Congressman Fort declared that Prohibition was here to stay, that it was responsible in part for U. S. economic advancement, that the Press was grossly biased, that the Wets had no adequate substitute for liquor control. But like a thoroughgoing Wet he sounded when he said: "The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act made unlawful the traffic in liquor-not its use. . . . Sincere friends of temperance have done the cause of Prohibition its greatest injury by insisting that the use of alcohol has become immoral." As a climax, Orator Fort plumped for home winemaking, home...
Gary Cooper was born in Helena, Mont., but went to grammar school in England. When he was 13 he went back to Helena, attended high school there. One night he was smashed up in an automobile accident and for two years after that his father made him stay on the family ranch. When he got out of Grinnell College he drew cartoons for a Helena newspaper. He went to Los Angeles to be a commercial artist, began to hang around the offices of casting directors. He got parts in a few westerns and after a while his height...
...advice at the disposal of the Polish Treasury. It was he who was behind the recent deal by which Standard Steel Car Corp. underwrote $20,000,000 worth of Polish State Railways Bonds for Lilpop, Rau & Loewenstein, Polish car builders. A more personal result of Economist Dewey's stay in Poland is a series of moving pictures of Russia and Poland. Since he took them himself, he is very proud of them. He likes to run them off, with comments, for friends after dinner. Whenever any of his pretty daughters or smart sons appear on the screen, Economist Dewey...
There is little doubt that such a vigorous policy, if conscientiously adhered to, will remove the breath--at least of contagion, from Boston and its environs, and be a convincing proof of purity to the Tercentenniary sight-seer--provided he doesn't stay too long...