Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though Premier Blum has shown himself toward French strikers, who were down last week from 1,000,000 to 204,000, nevertheless for Jesse Isidor Straus the Cabinet soon did more than it was doing for Paris department-store owners whose premises were in the third week of a "stay-in-strike." Over to the American Hospital and down into its basement hurried Minister of Interior Roger Salen-gro to "personally intervene." By nightfall he had got the strikers to abandon their more fantastic demands, persuaded the American Hospital to accept the rest, including higher pay, shorter hours...
...Paris meanwhile, strong-nerved Fashion Creator Gabrielle Chanel told her striking dressmakers that, as the shop under her management could not earn the pay they demanded, they had better run it themselves and she would stay on to help the new owners as an unpaid stylist. At this the strong-nerved strikers told Mme Chanel that what she needed was ''more capital," marched off to try to get it from the Socialist Treasury. On being refused, they marched back and formally refused to take Mme Chanel's shop off her hands, she then refusing to keep...
...prepared to carry out the instructions imposed upon your officers by the recent Canonsburg convention. The policy of fluttering procrastination followed by your board is already responsible for the loss of some weeks of time and must be abandoned. ... If you do not yet know your own mind, please stay at home...
Members of the National Assembly could stay in hotels at $4 a day or a tent colony at $1.50. Those who chose the latter shivered at first, later found it a pleasant enough spot with its Army tents, mess tent and assembly tent which had done circus duty. According to one of its inmates. Rev. Charles Jarvis Harriman of Philadelphia's Episcopal Church of St. James the Less, the camp cost $600 as against preliminary estimates of $4,300. "God guidance is the answer," said Mr. Harriman. "We did not see how we could afford several thousand dollars...
...home. Both contracted the disease presumably at St. Mark's, whence their parents snatched them last month at first word of epidemic. To a hospital room next to their son went Philip Danforth Armour III and his wife Gwendolin. Said the mother: "It is worth the risk to stay near him." Fourteen years ago Philip IV. then 5, and his sister Gwendolin, then 6, were stricken with an undiagnosed infection. The little girl died...