Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zipping back to Berlin, the forehanded Chancellor summoned his Cabinet and in the night before President von Hindenburg died a decree law was drafted and signed by the harried Ministers, ready for proclamation to block the Constitutional procedure under which owl-eyed Supreme Court Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke would normally have become Acting President on the death of Paul von Hindenburg...
...Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...
...concrete block the size of a brick was reduced to powder...
...across the street from Arnold Constable & Co., the Wendel mansion and grounds were appraised last April at $4,500,000. S. H. Kress & Co. announced that they would replace the gloomy old house with the finest store in their system. But competition will be close at hand. A block up Fifth Avenue is F. W. Woolworth's famed Store No. 1000, opened in 1918 and stocked with quality goods to attract sophisticated Fifth Avenue shoppers...
Sued for Divorce. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 50, financier, onetime head of Republic Steel Corp. who lost his fortune in a successful fight to block a merger between Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Steel & Tube (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931 et seq.); by Margaret House Eaton; in Akron. Charges: gross neglect...