Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith. ... As long as I live I am going to stay in the Democratic party...
Short, swart, smiling "Cousin Charley" was not there. After poking things into and taking things out of his desk at the Capitol in Washington, he proceeded to Providence, R. I., to stay with his darkly handsome daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight. Mrs. Knight's father-in-law, C. Prescott Knight, took the Nominee out on his yacht to watch sailing races in Narragansett...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, training in New York for a title bout with Thomas Heeney of New Zealand at Promoter Rickard's Madison Square Garden in July, was reported vexed at Mr. Rickard's Houston visit. Tunney was said to have said: "Why doesn't he stay here and mind his own business? I need him worse than the Democrats...
...Woodrow Wilson arrived regally and went to stay with the Jesse Holman Joneses in their bungalow atop Mr. Jones's new Lamar Hotel. So far as the convention was concerned, Mr. Jones, who arranged it all, was the most important man in town. A Mr. Smith, of course, was the most important man, not in town. William C. Hogg, whom oldtime Houstonians might call their first citizen and whose father was governor of Texas (1891-95), published a letter upbraiding Mr. Jones for "a consistent and calculating career of mendacity which would belittle even Jesse James, who was romantic...
...Stay East, young man," counselled potent Meatpacker F. Edson White, president of Armour and Co., principal speaker at the Omaha convention of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Middle Western farmers, declared Meatpacker White, should discourage "back-to-the-farm" propaganda, should hope for fewer farmers, higher prices. Confounding calamity howlers, he compared yearly incomes of farmers in the Middle West with the national average. His comparison: Nebraska $4,010; South Dakota, $3,356; Iowa, $4,180; Kansas, $3,020; U. S. average...