Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected to Congress on an anti-corporation farming platform, is today one of the noisiest Republican hecklers in the House. He shouted loudly over the tax bill and tried to block it by getting a sales tax included. He shouted loudly over Dr. Wirt and the iniquities of the Brain Trust. Last week he got into an argument with Speaker Rainey over a question of procedure and tied up business in the House for an hour and a quarter until he was finally and decisively voted down. Several Democrats saluted him with Indian war-whoops, as a subtle reminder that...
...Assembly resolved against lynching, military training, liquor, salacious films and block booking (see below), private manufacture of munitions, the Immigration Exclusion Act of 1924, selfish moneymakers...
...Whereas certain residents residing on Mill Street are deprived of their lawful rights to enter homes without serious inconvenience because of the promiscuous closing of highways in that vicinity, it is ordered that the Chief of Police refuse permission to the authorities of Harvard College to block off Mill Street and thereby restrict its use, for public travel during Class Day exercises...
...shipping business has been no hotbed of profits and Mr. Franklin has parted with most of his foreign ships. In 1927 he sold White Star back to the British for $35,000,000. Because more than $11,000,000 is still owing on that deal he unsuccessfully tried to block the merger of White Star and Cunard in a London Court (TIME, March 26). He has sold 28 of Leyland's 32 ships. Meanwhile he has brought new lines into his fold, acquiring an interest in Baltimore Mail Line; tying up with Roosevelt Line by inducing Kermit Roosevelt, Vincent...
...easy trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that soon the new firm of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co. was purchased...