Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that unemployment-insurance payments were costing the State of New York $7,500,000 a week, the State Labor Department made a harsh decision: from now on, the jobless would have to stay home instead of having their checks sent to vacation spots from the Catskills to Florida...
...took over the gates. They demanded 6½ months wages plus severance pay. Acting Consul General Walter P. McConaughy and two other officials were locked in. The workers threatened to bring in their entire force of 800, complete with wives & children, to camp in the consulate halls. "We will stay until we starve," they said...
...much feverish activity. Mannequins, salesgirls and designers were rushed to the sewing tables to get the dresses ready in time. Curly-haired Jacques Fath, stripped to the waist, sat in a room stacked with designs and lengths of expensive material. "The girls are the first to suffer if they stay away," said he. "They'll be back...
Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, unwanted in the U.S. and Cuba and banished from Rome as a criminal threat, arrived at last in his native town of Lercara Friddi, Sicily, only to leave it again for Naples after less than a day's stay and a warm kiss on each cheek from the mayor...
...United Steel-ivorkers; of a heart ailment; in Pittsburgh. One of C.I.O.'s ace organizers (he directed the postwar "Operation Dixie" to organize Southern labor), Bittner was president of a Mine Workers' local at 16, Pitched his wagon to the John L. Lewis star, but chose to stay as Phil Murray's lieutenant in the Steelworkers when Lewis' Mine Workers broke with C.I.O...