Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. was organized in 1863, its first office being in the Montgomery Block, built in 1853 and still standing, being one of the very few pioneer buildings in San Francisco which have survived the march of time. We have a record of 16 brave firemen killed in the line of duty during the period of the Volunteer Fire Department. They evidently did more than breaking windows and throwing slung shots. ALBERT EDWARD CONLON Vice President Historical Society of the San Francisco Fire Dept. San Francisco, Calif...
...with refreshing relish. Loretta Young, as a young heiress who announces her engagement to the reporter in order to turn the heat of publicity on him for a change, is excellent. Slim Summerville supplies added amusement in his role of a country judge, the doors of whose cell block are constantly falling from their hinges...
...camp of the brother's chief competitor with no way out but to work. The rival company is controlled by Beverly Roberts, as rugged as the men she employs. Brent, whose entire life has been spent chasing women about Europe and this country, finds in her a stumbling block for his advances, and even when she realizes his value to her, she does not loosen...
...President lamented that an amendment, besides being too slow, could be blocked by thirteen states with only five percent of the population. But he failed to remark that the representatives in the Senate of those same states could, by filibustering, block any judicial appointment he might make, or, for that matter, any law. In other words, he is not so worried about democratic majority rule as he is about his own immediate control. His real complaint is that he can't whip states into lines as easily as the might the gentlemen of the Senate...
...five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could walk to the face of the glacier. Now so much water is flowing we could not walk along the front." Fear that the glacier might dam the two-mile-wide Delta River, block the Richardson Highway and thus shut off Fairbanks from the outer world was not lively, although "the glacier is estimated to have moved three and one half miles since October...