Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roberts departs from her customary Junior League Portrayals' and becomes the heroic young miss who runs a logging outfit somewhere up in "God's Country." George Brent, as the man in question, not only brings out the eternal feminine in her but frustrates her competitor when he tries to block up the river. The fact that the competitor is Mr. Brent's brother only makes his sacrifice for the woman he loves all the more noble...
Excerpts: "In recent times, . . . certain groups within the legal profession have done much to block progress and to befuddle the legislative processes. Such activities . . . have served to bring the profession into public disrepute." "The impression [has been created! that the profession serves as an instrument of obstruction. We believe this impression is fundamentally false...
About 4:30 a. m. they emerged to find rain pouring. They took a taxicab and drove around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand...
...business were so great as to jar the habitual harmony between Ward's mail order and retail business. Since he moved from Wilmette, Ill. to Montclair, N. J. he has had a lot of fun fishing as a member of the Atlanta Tuna Club at Block Island...
...Brooklyn Times was acquired by the late Carson C. Peck, vice president and treasurer of F. W. Woolworth Co. Mr. Peck died in 1915 and his son, Fremont Carson Peck, took over in 1922. Ten years later, young Publisher Peck bought the Standard Union from Chain-Publisher Paul Block. Same year Chain-Publisher Gannett relinquished control of the Eagle to a corporation headed by Millard Preston Goodfellow, an old Brooklyn...