Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exhibition Hall of Chicago's Hotel Stevens was jampacked last week with $1,000,000 of gravestones. Around & around the Hall walked dozens of joking, back-slapping businessmen who eyed each granite block with official pride. They tramped into a private dining room, sat down to a banquet at which no one made a speech. For five days they haggled over code chiselers, discussed new ideas on designs, talked about cashing in on their backlog. Gravestone sellers all, members of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, they wound up their annual convention in the hotel taproom and went home with schemes...
Into the big office of Benito Mussolini at Palazzo Venezia last week bustled U. S. Publisher Paul Block to tell the Dictator that "I find Italy greatly improved under Fascism and tremendous loyalty to yourself...
...half an hour the conversation buzzed along. Then an allusion to Il Duce's onetime editorship of Il Popolo D'Italia which he still publishes at Milan gave Publisher Block his chance...
...Speaking to Your Excellency as one journalist to another," ventured Paul Block, "why don't you give your people a free Press...
...Block, we have a free Press!" replied II Duce with what his visitor described as "a smile of great kindness." Then thoughtfully the Dictator added: "Of course when a writer attacks the Government in a way we know to be harmful to the people, then we call his attention to it. Yes, we call his attention...