Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending a grand jury investigation. These decisions made it certain that the "scandal" issue against Mr. Earle & friends would stay alive & kicking till election day. With the Republican ticket headed by Senator James...
...furious when in 1935 the British, under Stanley Baldwin, made a separate naval limitations pact with Hitler Germany-an agreement which incidentally violated the Treaty of Versailles. And they were furious last week when Neville Chamberlain surprised almost everyone at Munich by accepting an invitation from Adolf Hitler to stay on after the Four-Power Conference had ended (see above) for a 90-minute talk...
...Doren's Benjamin Franklin is not so much a biography as an encyclopedia-meaty, informative and valuable, but with few literary charms. It includes the whole story of Franklin's career (Author Van Doren lists 27 subjects or episodes treated for the first time) and readers who stay with it come back with a rich historical haul. They get a good idea of what it was like to be a 17-year-old penniless apprentice in Philadelphia in 1723; a fresh account of the state of science when Franklin began his electrical experiments; an essay on the more...
...shortest end of betting odds in the four-year stay of Coach Dick Harlow, the Varsity football team will take on Cornell's white-shirted eleven at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon...
...products last June, ingot production stood at 28% of capacity. Since then it has increased steadily, reached 47.3%, highest it has been since last October. Whereas the industry could formerly break even at 45% with the old prices, it must now, however, produce at about 55 or 60% to stay out of the red. In an attempt to reach the break-even mark. U. S. Steel Corp. last week suddenly slashed steel rail prices for 1938's fourth quarter $2.50 per ton, bringing them into line with other steel prices, which it left unchanged. Other companies quickly followed suit...