Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily summed up his investigations. "The impression made by ten days of observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed in jails since March 12 (when Austria was annexed by the Reich...
Last week some 100 Fraternity members moved out to Peace Haven to stay. Mr. Schafer (called by his disciples the Messenger) went back to Manhattan to continue his lectures. Said he comfortably to the press, "People think we're a lot of nuts...
Britain and France, meanwhile, joined in warning Japan to stay off Hainan Island, which Japan might use as a base for an offensive against Canton and South China. Hainan is a Chinese island which lies close to the coast of French Indo-China and uncomfortably close to Britain's strategic sea route between her colonies of Singapore and Hong Kong...
...Germans, gathered around their radios all over the Reich at three o'clock in the morning, wept into their beer. "Impossible," they wailed when the broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed out three minutes after the broadcast began. Schmeling's wife, pretty Anny Ondra, who is one of the most popular cinemactresses in Germany, sobbed: "It's terrible that punches like that are permitted." Reichsführer...
When Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville Corp., was an undergraduate at the State University of Iowa (class of 1915) he was much impressed by the dean of education, Dr. Walter Albert Jessup, a grave, bulky man who looked uncomfortable in a mortarboard. Dr. Jessup did not stay put. Year after Lewis Brown's graduation he was made president of the university, less because of his brilliance as an educator than his ability for raising money; in 1934 he went East to be president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Last week Lewis Brown made...