Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munitions makers, Senator Nye announced, had met with Secretary of Commerce Hoover and conspired to block or render impotent the 1925 attempt of the League of Nations to draft a covenant restricting the international traffic in arms. The arms makers retorted that at the request of the State Department, Secretary...
...Columbia dedicated new South Hall, a block-shaped brick-&-limestone library, built with $4,000,000 from Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, designed as a "working laboratory" for scholars...
...attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power Co. stockholders who are trying to block the sale of $2,200,000 of property...
CRIMSON representatives, and many others who have watched the team in its practices and games this season are likewise convinced that Harvard need not risk the dangers of "block-booking," to which it most certainly would be exposed if a new coaching staff were imported. The CRIMSON has no intention of acting as campaign manager for any coach who aspires to the vacant post. It speaks merely to express what appears to be the consensus of opinion among players and followers of the team...
From him Josephine Roche inherited a large but by no means controlling block of stock in Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., third biggest coal mining company in Colorado. Crushed and disorganized by long and bloody industrial warfare, Colorado miners were then brooding another strike. The strike broke. Six workers were killed, 35 injured at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.'s Columbine mine. Instead of scuttling back to the peaceful East, Josephine Roche bought control of the company, set out to create "a new era in the industrial relations of Colorado." She invited the dreaded United Mine Workers of America...