Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as this destructive nihilism continues, every weak state is in danger of disappearing, and America if she hopes to stay neutral, must steel her mind to see the theatre of war gradually widen over Europe. There is not much the United States can do. She can protest to Russia, declare her a belligerent and an aggressor but very little more. But what is important for us is to try to see the issues more clearly all the time, and maintain neutrality in action even though it is becoming more and more impossible to maintain it in thought. Meanwhile states...
...signed recording and booking contracts that were to run for two years. When his drummer, Buddy Rich, left to join Tommy Dorsey several weeks ago, Shaw, according to several of the men in his band, offered Rich a large increase in salary, and when Rich refused to stay, told him he could return whenever he wanted to. As far as ascertainable, his recording company, booking agency, and other business associates had no idea that he intended to leave. And whatever Shaw says, his income in the past year has been dropping below the $70,000 figure he made last year...
Business. The U. S. should stay out of the war, cooperate economically with Great Britain and France. "There is nothing that businessmen the world over fear and detest quite so much as war. ... I wish someone would run down the sources of the idea that businessmen are inclined to war. ... In recent years we have seen Japan's aggressions in Asia, and Italy's in Africa, and Hitler's. ... Is there anyone in his right mind who would suggest that these acts of violence . . . have been favored or promoted by business interests...
...from Justice Wasservogel a writ of habeas corpus demanding that the father produce the girl in court. Reporters had interviewed Mr. Herrick and found him the classic figure of the outraged parent trying to keep his girl home: "If I put my foot down," he stormed, "it'll stay down." And they noted that he wore a 9½ shoe...
Last week the No. 1 German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who in early Nazi days gave Hitler invaluable fiscal support, suddenly arrived with his wife and child at the Locarno Hotel in Lucerne, settled down for "an indefinite stay." Said Tycoon Thyssen: "As a member of the Reichstag I expressed myself in timely and emphatic fashion against the war and the present policy of the Reich Government. This political attitude threatened to cause consequences which forced me to leave Germany...