Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Angel Island stringers and smoking the catch for 'tween-meal tidbits, going to one movie a week as guests of the U. S. Army across the island at Fort McDowell. Now that they might not travel in Japanese ships, as planned, the Columbus' crew's stay appeared extended indefinitely, though Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins said she was "cooperating in every way" to send them home. Chances are they will be sent in batches to Central and South American ports, whence many an able-bodied Nazi (including twelve pilots of Scadta Airlines in Colombia) has been successfully...
...execution day approached, Eire's Government did all in its power to stay the hanging. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's record on the subject was unmistakably clear. He had forcefully condemned I,. R. A. direct action. An I. R. A. veteran himself, he had nevertheless outlawed the organization at home. Publicly he had declared that the program of terrorism "has put us back" in Eire's official-and legal-campaign for the union of Ireland. But none knew better than Mr. de Valera that Barnes and Richards dead on English gallows would rekindle anti-British feeling...
...London Eire High Commissioner John Dulanty, on orders of the Prime Minister, appealed to Dominions Secretary Anthony Eden for clemency, spent 20 minutes trying to persuade Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to stay the sentence. Mrs. Tom Clarke, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, whose husband was killed by the British in 1916, telegraphed Mayor Joseph Holt of Coventry to ask that he appeal for a reprieve. Mayor Holt replied: "Am sure you will agree that the Coventry crime was dreadful in its deliberation and consequences to innocent people." Eire labor unions threatened strikes as a "mark of humiliation...
...Radicals resigned in a body last week. The supposition was that the three Socialist and two Democratic members of the Cabinet would also resign, giving Don Tinto a chance to name a brand-new Ministry. The plan failed to click. The Socialists promptly announced that their Ministers would stay and the Communists demanded from Don Tinto an assurance of loyalty to the Popular Front. Don Tinto, honest friend of the working man, gave it. Pinched between his conservative and radical supporters, he reappointed two of the three untainted Radical members of his Cabinet, replaced the three scandal-smeared members with...
...Last year the friars handed out 175,000 meals. No questions are asked of any Brother Chris topher except his name and the name of his next of kin. The friars, supported by outside donations, give their lodgers 10? worth of tobacco or candy a day, ask those who stay more than a day to work. Most stay about six weeks; one Brother Christopher remained for 15 years before drifting away...