Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horace Atlee Mann. 65, lawyer, politician; of heart disease; in Nashville, Tenn. Horace Mann was credited in 1928 with winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused him southern patronage Mann turned against him. tried to block Hoover's renomination. In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Mann were converted to Catholicism. ¶Died. Mrs. Helen Phipps Martin, wife of Financier Bradley Martin; daughter of the late Henry Phipps. Carnegie partner; daughter-in-law of the hostess of the famed "$1,000.000 goldplate" dinner which aroused the protests...
...cabinet, brought debate on Britain's North Atlantic shipping bill in the House of Commons to a sudden halt one day last week. Patriotic members of Parliament wanted to know and know at once whether President Philip Albright Small Franklin of International Mercantile Marine was really going to block the Cunard-White Star merger (TIME...
...well-loved wives around among his friends, to lose a wife, to murder, and to suffer excess of thought; through all these turns with lady Fate, he avoids heroics, and at the same time veers away from the equally dangerous wall of intellectually squalid sentimentality which might so easily block his performance; he covers a middle-ground of mindless, emotionally dulled savagery which is absolutely genuine. The Eskimos in minor roles are ably directed; the more difficult parts, Mala's wives, are treated with a surprising delicacy...
...fancy advertisement for the excitements of metropolitan nightlife. The Ninth Guest is civilized scarecrow drama, handsome, improbable and exciting. Worst shot: a butler fumbling with a block of ice to provide comic relief...
Death and injury came in curious ways. A New Jersey fireman, knocked into a drift by a fire hose, lay there unconscious until his fellows discovered him, a solid block of ice. A Long Islander tried to get home, found he could not make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island...