Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomats headed back for Washington. The press was told nothing of what they had told the President or he them. Ambassador Phillips said he would start back to Rome next week, which suggested that the President planned no crackdown on Dictator Mussolini. Ambassador Wilson said only that his stay in the U. S. should not be called "indefinite." The world press set a watch upon the comings & goings of Mrs. Wilson in Berlin. Should she sail for the U. S., it might be momentous...
...relations such as the country has not seen in many a year. Over one blank stood the name of Germany. In one of the shortest diplomatic calls on record-two minutes-German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff said good-by to Mr. Hull before taking himself back to Germany for a stay as "indefinite" as U. S. Ambassador Wilson's (see col. 1). In addition, Secretary Hull published the texts of an exchange of notes with Germany, begun in October and finished last week, by which he sought unsuccessfully to get Germany to make good on some...
...Trade (chamber of commerce) recently announced that since the Wagner Act forbids beloved George F. to speak up against brewing unionism, the businessmen who depend on E. J. pay rolls were going to speak up in his stead. The Board of Trade advised 18,500 E. J. workers to stay out of an A. F. of L. union which was trying to start in their midst. A. F. of L. Organizer Ben Berk promptly complained to the National Labor Relations Board that Endicott Johnson inspired the letter, thereby violating the Wagner Act. When George F.'s visiting friends presumably...
...stuffy offices under basement steam pipes or partitioned off from noisy stock rooms, the display directors of Fifth Avenue labor in no arty atmosphere. They spend anywhere from $300 to $2,000 every week (twice a week at Lord & Taylor's) on a complete change of windows, usually stay up all one night at least with a squad of carpenters, painters, dressers, electricians. Every window display is tied up with merchandising, but this tie-up in the last few years has changed. Display directors owe half their fun to a Depression-born business axiom: "Sell the store as well...
...Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by George Abbott) beans the niggerbaby, hits the bull's eye, rings the bell. Far & away the best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...