Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest city. The Crump dynasty is supposed to be financed by various forms of "protection money" from bootleggers, gamblers, et al. Be that as it may, Boss Crump keeps taxes low, picks good competent men for public office and-unusual in the South-cultivates and delivers a solid block of Negro votes.* Result of this system is that in 30 years of bossdom Edward Crump has had a record of 60 electoral victories, no defeats in Memphis and Shelby County. Since Boss Crump controls some 50,000 votes, more than a quarter of the total necessary to win a Democratic...
...British Government decreed that no more fighting would be permitted in Gibraltar Harbor, backed up this decree with a virtual blockade of the portal. Squarely between the Pillars of Hercules H. M. S. Queen Elizabeth dropped anchor, fingered the water with searchlights. Effect of this move was to block the Loyalist battleships from attacking Algeciras and Morocco, both firmly in Rebel clutches...
...very unfortunate to try to bring religion into this campaign," declared New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block last week in a signed editorial in which he tried to bring religion into the campaign by asserting that President Roosevelt had drafted New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to run for re-election in an effort to snare the State's Jewish vote...
...studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from $5 to $48 for his etchings. For the snowscapes for which he has developed such a sensitivity, Etcher Young bundles up in woolens, leather boots, skating cap, takes along an umbrella to protect his sketching block, placidly stands in snowbanks until he is satisfied with his drawing. Etcher Young makes his own etching instruments from rattail files and dentists' drills, finest steel he can obtain...
...Press, the more frantically the Press worked to improve the picture. By last autumn Louis was not merely the ablest fighter of his generation but the greatest of all time. His opponents, crediting the myth, approached the ring as though it were an abattoir. Chicago's pugilistic chopping block, King Levinsky, lasted 141 seconds. Tough old Paulino Uzcudun did better. No one had ever knocked out Paulino, in 36 years. Fisti-cuffer Louis did it in four rounds...