Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia's Acting Governor John Blair, Washington's letter sought from Gage a favor for some Virginian friends trading with Fort Pitt at the top of the Ohio Valley. They wanted Gage to promise not to make a boundary shift that would throw a block of Indian territory across their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there be People in the world, so selfish...
Back in the early depression days, an outdoor skating area of Soldiers Field was abandoned because there were too few enthusiasts and too few cold days to make the expense worth while. But the interest this year shows that the weather is the only stumbling block, and so far it, too, has been cooperative. It does not seen as if the cost of flooding a level ground and building boards around it counterbalance the advantages of a rink, even during a fairly warm winter. For there are a great many days each year when there is no skating...
...conference is being organized to check reactionaries who are "mobilizing their forces to further block the will of the people." Veto of the Oath repeal bill is cited as an example...
...Origin of the Family. Meanwhile, Morgan settled in Rochester, N. Y., married a cousin, became a director in railway & mining companies and piled up $100,000 before he died in 1881. He was elected State senator in 1867, but his legislative career was notable only for his attempt to block an investigation of the gigantic Erie Railroad swindle...
...America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice of friends, made A.F. of L.'s President William Green centre instead of a blocking back. At "extreme" right end he placed Colgate's spoon-collecting President George Barton Cutten, onetime (1897-98) star Yale halfback of whom Mr. Broun...