Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Chicago came word that Jake Arvey, who had been thumping for Ike Eisenhower, admitted that Harry Truman "has picked up a lot." The President also got some advice. Mississippi's John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop and vote equally with all citizens...
...once, housewives had help that they liked. The girls liked the setup too. Only 25 of the first 2,000 have quit because of rows with employers. About 90% of them plan to stay where they are after their year's contract ends. (Exceptions: the 25 girls who have married since coming to Canada, 75 more who are engaged...
Then, two days before the big bout, the secret leaked out: Jacobs, fearful that fans might stay away from Yankee Stadium if they knew the fight would be televised, had gagged the network and the sponsor. Too much ballyhoo in advance might spoil his chances of a hoped-for million-dollar gate. This week, satisfied with the look of his box office, Jacobs gave NBC a nod. Eastern set owners could relax, and bartenders prepared to handle the biggest crowds in history...
...Hath Joined . . ." Dr. Bainton finds the sacramental conception of marriage best grounded in the New Testament. Jesus sanctified marriage by His first miracle at Cana. And Christ said: ". . . What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Saint Paul, however, urged Christians who were unmarried to stay single. Marriage, he believed, was only for those in whom the temptation to sin was too strong...
...suspected that it was a bluff to scare him off his high horse. Now he learned better. Vice Presidents Oswald Higgins, Laurence Odell, Charles Odorizzi and Earl Ward promptly resigned. By week's end, Avery was reportedly talking fast to persuade the other three vice presidents to stay...