Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week James Ramsay MacDonald can step out of No. 10 Downing St., stroll across the greensward to Buckingham Palace and "advise" King George to dissolve the House of Commons. In France power to block such dissolution is held by the Senate. In practice this joker has produced a tribe of Deputies 'and Senators in open conspiracy to keep their lucrative seats as long as possible...
Meantime his budding flower was set upon by cutworms, slugs and aphids. Two preferred stockholders marched into court to block the Knoxville deal. A group of coal and ice companies, which mortally hate & fear TVA's hydro-electric schemes, hastily obtained judicial permission to join the fight. Since the agreement was already signed & sealed, Bond & Share was placed in the anomalous position of fighting shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Lilienthal...
...ERNEST BLOCK...
...Sales ranged as high as $24,000,000 a year, profits as high as $1,200,000. Then early in 1933 McLellan Stores went to the wall because the banks would not renew its loans. By last spring, when it was time to put McLellan Stores on the auction block, it was evident that the chainstore was still a moneymaker...
...block of scholarships, carrying no financial aid, have been awarded to 87 Harvard undergraduates by the Committee of scholarships. Fourteen of the 87 are John Harvard Scholarships, which are made without stipend to students in the College of the highest scholastic standing who have not made application for other types of scholarships. The other 72 are Harvard College Scholarships, similarly assigned to students of slightly lower academic standing. The remaining award was the Abbott Lawrence Scholarships which is given to an undergraduate in the Engineering School...