Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Mr. Blackmer's stay in France be prolonged beyond the date of the Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty...
...other U. S. citizen has had so long or so distinguished a colonial career as General Wood, whom four Presidents (McKinley, Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge) have placed to take charge of U. S. colonies.* Yet last week it was generally felt that the Governor General had come home to stay. For General Wood returned a sick man, his future career depending upon the decision of doctors whom he will later consult in the East. They will be called upon to consider the following disabilities...
...post. For there was stationed the First Squadron of the Fourth Cavalry, and from that squadron, announced Major General Harry A. Smith, Commander of the Seventh Corps Army Area, Omaha, was to be chosen the presidential guard which will look after the safety of the President during his summer stay in the Black Hills...
...takes Mann many pages to describe the three weeks stay. During that time an immense change comes over Hans Pastoy, a change that is gradual, from within, organic. He falls into the life of the sanatorium. He notices that in this place of absolute relaxation the hours are empty and become as nothing, and that the patients begin to think in terms of days, then weeks, finally, months, and years. Also there is a gradual corporalization of the individual: he begins to think of nothing but his bodily state, his temperature, his meals, his senses. Up here love...
...president. The 1922 balance sheet showed profits of $4,562,607. He revolutionized the buying and inventory control, tripled gross sales in five years (to some 200 millions in 1926), and made record profits of $11,358,498. When he resigned as president last week Mr. Merseles agreed to stay with Montgomery Ward as executive committee chairman. Montgomery Ward officers denied they planned to merge with their big competitor, Sears Roebuck & Co., and elected vice president George B. Everitt to their vacancy...