Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had also found strength and counsel in other Roosevelt holdovers. Speechwriter Sam Rosenman had been persuaded to stay, at least for another year. Owlish Judge Vinson, the Economic Stabilizer, was now top adviser on domestic affairs. Jimmy Byrnes, working on a special project at his Spartanburg (S.C.) home, was still on deck: he would go along to the forthcoming Big Three meeting. And, to the consternation of all red-blooded anti-New Dealers, Harry Truman had even kept smart Dave Niles as a Presidential assistant...
...came a development more important than any concession. The House of Representatives voted 345-to-18 for the Bretton Woods bill (see U.S. AT WAR). Britain and Russia could be assured that the U.S. was in world affairs to stay...
When Crisco Cooking Talks clicked over New York City's WExF, it was expanded (in 1925) into a network series conducted by Home Economist Ida Bailey Allen. By 1930 P & G strongly suspected that radio was here to stay. Looking around for someone to head its radio department, company officials decided that the copy department chief might qualify. Handsome William McCreary Ramsey II turned out to be a good choice...
Harry Fosdick had planned to leave the Riverside Church at 65-when he was entitled to, under its retirement plan. In March 1943, he handed in his resignation. The trustees, weighing "the spiritual needs of these war days," persuaded him to stay on for a while by limiting his duties to preaching...
...load after load of returning soldiers ... we find 80% of them listen to the gospel with more scepticism than . . . ever ... stay away from religious services . . . with less scruples . . . curse more and with a finesse unbelievable . . . gamble with more avidity and defend it with more vigor . . and find it difficult to hold an extended conversation without defaming womankind, even though unintentionally...