Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...
...Abbey in the city of Westminster at the present time contains Westminster School, the Houses of Parliament, the Government offices, Scotland Yard and a number of elegant mansions along St. James's Park. Deserving poor are almost as rare in Westminster as in John P. Morgan's block in Manhattan...
...President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help the "Block-Aid" campaign to help New York's needy. Excerpt: "We have reached a point where the aid of governments or the gifts of individuals, no matter how generous, are insufficient to meet the conditions which have come upon us. So we must all do our bit. . . ."- While Banker Morgan...
...soon return to active management of Willys-Overland Co. were commented on last week by the Ambassador to Poland: "The management of the Willys-Overland Co. is in the hands of the president and directorate, elected by common stockholders. My present financial interest ... is the ownership of a large block of preferred stock, which becomes voting stock after four quarterly dividends have been omitted. On April 1 the third will have been omitted...
...weeks ago there were three important evening papers in Brooklyn,* two of them published by outsiders?Frank Ernest Gannett's Eagle, Paul Block's Standard Union. Last week there were two, both home-owned. Chain-Publisher Gannett a month ago had let the revered Eagle revert to the Hesters and Gunnisons, oldtime Brooklyn families from whom he had bought it. Last week Chain-Publisher Block sold his Standard Union to the up-&-coming Brooklyn daily Times with which it was immediately consolidated. The Times's publisher is Fremont Carson ("Monty") Peck, 33, who inherited the paper from his father...