Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important evidence was that du Pont lobbyists in Washington had worked hard and fast to block action on the House resolution providing U. S. cooperation in a general arms embargo on warring nations. And the du Fonts, it quickly developed, had a fine working agreement with the great British Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. to divide territories and profits for the sale of military explosives and other chemicals. How effectively this agreement worked was shown by a letter from the du Pont agent in South America, one N. E. Bates Jr., to I. C. I. in which he pointed...
...squad earlier this week, from 90 to 44 players the coaches got down to business and sent the men through a stiff workout in spite of the drizzle which threatened to keep the team indoors. The morning session was held in the cage with special emphasis placed on blocking. In fact, the bulk of the day was given over to this essential and Coaches Walsh, Fesler and Lane worked all afternoon on the blocking problem. The motto this year is, "Nobody on the squad who can't block" and the players are certainly getting a dose of medicine in that...
Nevertheless, a number of ABA members feel that Banker Hecht has yet to live down his hectic years?at least in the public's eye. Last year a move was made to block his accession to the first vice presidency. New York members in session last June passed a pointed resolution calling on the ABA to nominate for high executive positions men "able to command the confidence not only of bankers but of the public at large." Last week with the annual ABA convention but a month away, the Hecht opposition again broke into the open. Manhattan bankers...
Life Begins at 8:40, the season's first first-rate entertainment, is graced with good music by Harold Arlen, perennial Cotton Club revue composer ("Stormy Weather," "Breakfast Ball"). Highly suitable for humming: "What Can You Say in a Love Song," "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block," "You're a Builder-upper...
When a Briton named Bill Morris turned up with his Bible in Buenos Aires' Boca dock section in the late 1890's, that district had five saloons to the block, two policemen on every corner to keep murders down to about four per day. Bill Morris, a shabby little street-corner preacher, had been looking all over the world for just such a place. First thing he did was to pick four homeless ragamuffins off the street, install them in a garret. He taught them himself, begged money to feed and clothe them...