Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia hurried off to Washing ton, D.C. to find out what it was all about. Returning, he refused at first to say whether it would be enforced in New York City or not. Manhattan's hundreds of nightclub, bar and restaurant operators who customarily stay open until 4 a.m. on week nights, 3 a.m. on Saturdays, hoped for a reprieve. Cried Billy Rose: "The Mayor doesn't like it. If he did he'd be jumping all over the lot shouting hooray for it." Said the Mayor: "Billy Rose is a showman-he uses such...
...Bucharest printers were ordered by their trade union not to print it. Premier Radescu ordered the Government censor "to censor nothing whatever in . . . the papers enjoying the trade union's support, even if they were to print insults addressed to me." He added: "I do not care to stay in the position I am now holding if the country does not wish it." This seemed to suit the N.D.F.'s apparent purpose: to force out Radescu, force in a leftist Government...
...have my own troubles, too. I have to explain when I'm half an hour late from the movie. But when I stay home we fight. So I'm just living until the day Herb comes back. We used to gripe about our house: the roof leaked, we needed new screens, and all that. Well, just give me any old house now. Anything, anything...
...years Reuters and the Associated Press had an agreement to stay out of the other's backyard. The pact ended in 1934 (although the A.P. still trades its U.S. news for Reuters' foreign coverage). In the ten years since then, Reuters has acquired only 32 U.S. clients, got only as far inland as Chicago. One handicap: the wide suspicion that Reuters is a semi-official propaganda arm of the British Government. To combat this impression, Reuters took ads in U.S. trade papers to prove that it is a cooperative like the A.P., owned by British newspapers...
...most of the money would probably go to the Government anyhow in excess-profits taxes. He has already paid off $7,500,000 has another $8,000,000 set aside to pay. The balance is still big. But he warned Big Steel that he is in Western steelmaking to stay. As a matter of fact, said Henry Kaiser, his men are now inspecting Geneva. He may buy that, too; Big Steel has no option on the place...