Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay at the nation's controls, the President canceled speaking engagements last week at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. and Chattanooga, Tenn...
...burned again. But you have the responsibility to keep the peace in this neighborhood not only for yourselves but for all. You must protect everyone, including the owner of the plantation here. And I urge you not to permit the establishment of drinking places. If you do not stay sober you will not keep the peace...
...been so hard on the peso that prices are rapidly rising, the cost of living soaring; 2) there are complaints that Government underlings, not imbued with Cárdenas' high ideals, are behaving like unscrupulous landlords in the U. S., keeping the books so that illiterate peons still stay in debt even after their crops are harvested; 3) in some cases peons incapable of farming without a landlord's direction, are raising smaller crops than ever before on the same land...
Getting down to specifics, Mr. Berle found the undistributed surplus tax defective because "though it retarded growth of existing large corporations, [it] gave them a perpetual franchise, not only to stay large, but to be the only large corporations in existence. No small business could grow up to a point where it could give its larger competitors any real battle...
...light last week came a tale about Patient Roosevelt's stay in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester: Among those curious to see James Roosevelt was a young nurse who made bold to enter his room at 6 a. m. while his night nurse was out writing her report. Waking the patient, the youngster popped a thermometer into his mouth, gazed her fill, removed the thermometer, marched out. When Patient Roosevelt asked his doctor if he must be wakened so early, the young nurse was discovered, fired-but soon given a job in another hospital...