Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission told a radio audience that opponents of the plan are seeking to block more efficient government through a campaign of "falsehoods" and in "an indecent fashion...
...farm in Pall Mall, Tenn., on the 20th anniversary of his Wartime feat (killing 20 German soldiers and capturing 132 singlehanded), Sergeant Alvin Cullom York offered a plan for peace: "I believe if we want to stop Hitler we must knock him off the block...
...Chicago Lumberman Louis L. Meitus. Few weeks ago, when Mr. Meitus heard that the Seils & Sterling Circus was being disbanded at Sheboygan, Wis., he went shopping there for trucks and trailers. His business done, he started to go home. Just then five Shetland ponies were put on the block. Knowing that his two children pined for a pony, Mr. Meitus decided to buy all five. Once fairly in his stride, he kept on bidding, finally bought the whole circus shebang...
Thus intoned California's Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, while he and 13 other Episcopal bishops, with light touches of their hands on a bowed head, made a bishop of Dr. Karl Morgan Block, 52, elected last spring to be bishop coadjutor of California. Bishop Parsons, a great but aging liberal of the Episcopal Church, had announced his intention to retire at 70 this winter, after an episcopate of 20 years, will be succeeded by Bishop Block. Chubby-chinned, Washington-born Dr. Block, who admits to being "outrageously vigorous," was for 13 years rector of St. Michael & St. George...
...small item in the football budget, but no one will deny their worth in teaching the science of gridiron technique. Harlow runs the pictures over and over again for the benefit of his squad. A coach can tell Joe or Bill repeatedly that he missed a certain block, but when the boy sees it there preserved for posterity on the silver screen, well, it makes a lasting impression on Joe or Bill...