Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need for an advance toward Socialism. . . ." Taking this bit in their teeth, the delegates galloped, bolted. While Leader Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that men like Arthur Henderson (onetime Foreign Secretary) may ever again enter a Cabinet and neglect to fight from the Government bench for "Socialism in our time!" Amid proletarian pandemonium, intellectual Sir Charles moved this resolution: "On assuming office, with or without power, definite Socialist legislation must immediately...
Duranty, was that it "brought forth three resolutions to skip like mice across the pages of the newspaper Pravda" (Truth). The three resolutions "contain nothing new. . . . The fundamental stumbling block to Soviet progress today is the food shortage of which the resolutions say nothing. The shortage is causing neither famine nor hunger but it is a universal shortage...
...term is commonly used in realty parlance, but part first and part second mortgages-as would have been apparent to an investor who understood balance sheets. Or perhaps a major attack may be made on a $2,500,000 issue of debentures secured by deposit of another block of bonds which at one time were rumored to have been withdrawn in part...
Early one afternoon Speaker Clemente Vazquez Bello of the Cuban Senate, who looked like a retired matador and was a good friend of President Gerardo Machado, stepped jauntily from his house next to the Havana Country Club and into his car to drive to the Senate. Down the block roared an open touring car containing seven hot-eyed young men with a riot gun. They passed with a rattle of shots. A dozen bullets struck Dr. Vazquez Bello, more than 60 punctured the car, the chauffeur was wounded in the head. Bleeding profusely, he was still able to drive...
...their headmasters to contribute a little something to St. Swiffen's; land was going begging in South Africa. But see here, what was this? The masthead which had remained unchanged for the past 144 years was all different. Instead of Gothic lettering it was set up in block lettering. And there were no horizontal lines enclosing the date below it. The titular coat of arms was not the same. And to cap that, the type face of the entire paper was different...