Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone workers of Woodward, Okla., the phone strike ended the moment they could dig out from the debris of last fortnight's tornado (TiME, April 21). While union officials ordered workers to ignore the emergency and stay on strike, 30 union operators rushed back to their jobs. Last week they made the strike's end official, sent in their resignations with a blistering telegram: "Girls refuse to stop. Will work as long as needed. . . . Would be ashamed of a union which would put up pickets in a disaster like this...
...Matter of Prestige. Before dawn's light, the British Army moved its might into Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other large towns. Loudspeakers blared that all residents must stay in their houses for 24 hours. At Safad a nervous British lieutenant called on Mrs. Helen Friedman, Dov Gruner's sister from Lancaster, Pa., and broke the news to her. She had seen her brother the day before and she had been told then that she could see him again this day. She sobbed, "Why did they do it? Why did they fool...
Like the other 35 U.S. special correspondents at the Moscow Conference, dark little Joseph Newman put up at the fancy Hotel Moskva. Last week he moved into the drab Metropole, where most of the permanent correspondents live. Newman is going to stay as the New York Herald Tribune...
...honor system, coupled with determination to enforce it on the student level, it might be put gradually into effect. Such a move could have the advantage of creating a healthier attitude toward college courses and exams, but the result also can be disastrous. The few dishonest people around will stay dishonest and make the honor system a farce unless the social pressure favoring it is enormous, and at the present there is no such pressure. An alternative at some schools that ostensibly have no policemen is a secret service of student council workers mixing with exam-takers and turning...
...petition of the group of students interested in organizing a College political organization following the general aims of the American Youth for Democracy was approved by the Council with the qualification that the group stay within all College regulations governing independent Harvard groups that are loosely affiliated with the national organizations. The petition was passed on the ground that the group would not duplicate the efforts of any organization already in operation and that the activities of the new group would not be detrimental to the best interests of the College...