Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Douglas had reason to be pleased, for United has been almost as big a stumbling block in hi's program of utility simplification as Electric Bond & Share. United not only is one of the biggest utility holding companies but it is the utility operator's conception of a beneficent holding company. It exercises no control over the operations of its subsidiaries, its function is wholly financial. In an industry where it is necessary to invest about $6 to do $1 worth of business (U. S. utilities last year had total gross sales...
Partition. Both sides were forewarned that the question of a united Ireland would prove the stumbling block of the session. "The British Government," purred Prime Minister Chamberlain, in opening the parley, "would be happy to see Ireland reunited, but only with the consent of Ulster and only as the result of a direct agreement between the two governments now existing in Ireland.'' "Thirty-two counties* or nothing," was de Valera's firm retort. But there was a diplomatic gleam in his eye as he added that unity of Ireland is "the essential foundation for the establishment...
...block any such U. S. innovation, New York City's Metropolitan Funeral Directors Association, which does 75% of the community's mortuary business, promptly counteroffered to set up "a clinic for families in need of funeral services somewhat along the lines of medical clinics." "We want," declared the Association's president, John J. Flynn, "to keep the funeral service in such cases free from suspicion of pauper stigma such as might possibly be involved if the cases had to be handled through municipal mortuaries." To "cases" recommended by clergy or social service executives, these morticians would...
...only son, Horace Dudley Klein, is in charge of market research for The Farmer. Fathers Harmon and Klein remain in control and the whole thing is pretty much a family affair. Of the 700 employes who work in the red-brick buildings which ramble over a St. Paul city block, one out of ten owns stock in the company...
...professor who has done much to reshape legal thinking. But such an appointee would inevitably have been scored as just a partisan agent or an impractical theorist. By appointing a lawyer who has won the admiration of administration critics, the President has accomplished his purpose without offending a large block of people whose confidence and cooperation are desirable...