Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voted against all the nominees because they did not like ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, hastily switched their votes. Pennsylvania's New Dealing Joe Guffey wanted to do likewise, but Committee Chairman Tom Connally drawled: "If I let you change your vote, are you agoin' to stay hitched?" Infuriated, Joe Guffey let his "nay" stand...
...water's edge, confident of the protection his flag of truce gave him. He asked 24 hours to make his decision: surrender or harakiri. But when he turned up 24 hours later, he had discovered another alternative. He politely informed the Americans that he had decided to stay in the jungle, politely withdrew...
Franklin Roosevelt, having told intimates that he means to fire Jesse Jones, faced a knotty dilemma. The probable out: Jesse will stay, but the Commerce Department will be whittled down...
...Navy has kept a cautious silence. Last week a hint of Navy hopes came out. Navy Secretary Forrestal announced that a board of naval officers would try to figure out how a sizable portion of the 226,050 reserve officers now serving can be induced to stay on as professionals after...
...Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned in his cell...