Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After we had gone another block, Mayor Cermak straightened up and I got his pulse. ... I remember I said, 'Tony, keep quiet-don't move. It won't hurt you if you keep quiet...
...Passed a House bill awarding the Medal of Honor to Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N. retired, who sank the U. S. S. Merrimac to block the harbor of Santiago. Cuba, June 3, 1898; sent it to the President...
Others who had promised to appear during the first fortnight of the investigation included: Publisher Paul Block, International Harvester's Alexander Legge, John Francis Hylan, onetime Mayor of New York, Packard's Alvan Macauley, United Mine Workers' John Llewellyn Lewis, Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, Prudential's Edward Dickinson Duffield, Delaware & Hudson's Leonor Fresnel Loree, Statistician Leonard Porter Ayres, Pundit Walter Lippmann, Chase Bank's Winthrop Williams Aldrich, National Farmers' Union's John Andrew Simpson, Anaconda's Cornelius Francis Kelley, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Pennsylvania R. R.'s William Wallace...
Crown officials granted permission for a large office building to be erected on the Carleton House terrace block overlooking the Mall. Reporters quickly discovered that such a building will impair the view from Buckingham Palace. The Daily Express immediately recalled an interview with Viscount Esher (son-in-law of New York's August Heckscher) in which he said...
...Italy about 1890, went to New York as a child. In his early 20's he won a sculpture prize from the old Whitney Studio Club, ancestor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. During the War he put the trigger finger of his right hand on a block, chopped it off to avoid killing his fellow men. Later he carved a crucifix in which the Christ is minus a trigger finger...