Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ayer's birthplace is now a noisy midtown block opposite Gimbel's department store. One of the first things she learned from her father, New York's second Negro doctor, and her mother, a white woman from the Isle of Wight, was to despise racial prejudice. That attitude and the New York Board of Education's steadfast insistence on racial equality kept her career from being blocked...
...footballers formed a block about the trembling instructor, rushed him to the edge of the campus. A trolley car was hailed and Nathan Yagol scrambled gladly aboard. Then the Oglethorpe University football squad trotted off to Hermance Stadium to resume spring practice...
Like two cranky old Civil War generals fighting Gettysburg over again, Messrs. Glass & Owen, born scarcely a block apart in Lynchburg, Va., had at each other again last week when Mr. Owen, onetime Indian Agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, accused Senator Glass of "using an undeserved prestige as an expert in monetary science against the public interest...
Last week, apparently, he found one. Phelps Dodge announced that it had acquired a block of stock in United Verde Copper Co. of Jerome, Ariz. from the heirs of Montana's late copper-mining Senator William A. Clark who owned control of the company. United Verde's sales-quota under the copper code is based on an annual capacity of 68,000 tons against Phelps Dodge's 168,000 tons...
Last week in Cleveland without the slightest warning the Department of Justice cracked down with an anti-trust suit to block Tom Girdler's merger. At the same time suit was filed against seven individuals under an obscure section of the Clayton Act, charging interlocking directorships in ten independent steel companies including Republic and Corrigan, McKinney...