Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orderly fashion, the ultimate question of constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful as indicating, with increasing clarity, the constitutional limits within which this Government must operate. . . . I hope your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation...
...A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests, all in one afternoon; Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac to block Santiago harbor in 1898; Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, whose ill-fated Arctic expedition in 1881 waged against no enemy but Nature, ended in the death of all but six of his 24 men (TIME. April...
...clock one morning last week a line started to form outside Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. A concert was to be given that evening at 9. By noon the queue stretched halfway down a long city block. Some people brought campstools, boxes of lunch. By nightfall there was a call for extra police. The crowd grew until 5,000 persons were clamoring for admittance to standing room available for only 140. No one had ever foreseen a near-riot for a Philharmonic concert, not even for the U. S. farewell of Arturo Toscanini...
...artistry in not being quotable. It not being quotable. is a musical comedy without words and without plot. Its virtue is its nonchalance which inexplicably becomes a striking feat of dramaturgy. Typical characters: Countess de Maigret as the wife whose idea of an escapade is to ride around the block in a taxicab with a lover who can be with her only in dark motion picture houses; Hugh Herbert as the theatrical prompter who, when off duty, prompts from force of habit the conversational clichés of those around...
...business." Spry, 78-year-old Mrs. Aroline Chase Pinkham Gove, Lydia Pinkham's only living daughter, countered by asking the Supreme Court of Maine, where the company is incorporated, to appoint a receiver for the company, planning to outbid her nephews when the business was put on the block. Last month the first round went to the Pinkham grandsons when a Massachusetts judge decided that their suit for a permanent injunction should be heard first...