Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada has a better form of government than the United States, and therefore a better ability to advance real democracy. The American Constitution is too rigid, and stays rigid because they have made it a sacred document. At the present moment a man who does not wish to be President, and whom the majority of Americans do not wish to be President, must serve his term as a prisoner of the Constitution for two more years. The Chief Executive in the United States has too much responsibility. . . . Mackenzie King is still with us after 20 years. . . . No American President could...
...attitude towards the Nazis from the beginning was clear. I only wanted to continue a career which I started ten years before 1933. . . . When the Nazis came Goebbels told me that I could stay in Germany as an unpolitical artist. This I did. . . . I've never conducted in a conquered country. I didn't want to follow tanks into other people's countries. . . . Where was the music of Beethoven more needed than in Himmler's Germany? . . . I am no more guilty than a potato dealer who continued to sell potatoes in the Third Reich...
...Washington the logistics of the oil deal seemed eminently satisfactory. If Europe were supplied from the Middle East, Western Hemisphere oil could stay in the Western Hemisphere. More Latin-American oil would be available...
...Chase National Bank had also had a hand in moving Coulter out. Dillon, Read had agreed to underwrite a $6.5 million stock issue and Chase had agreed to lend Western up to $7.5 million-on condition that the stock issue brought in the proposed $6.5 million. (Coulter will stay on as director but will sell his 240,210 shares of stock...
Holiday Business. In Detroit, 225-pound union President Herbert Thompson, with an eye to rising food costs, set forth the new wage demands of the Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...