Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-directed Commissioner of Interior Mikulas Ferjencik. He smelled a conspiracy, and began cramming Bratislava's jails with suspected conspirators. At first, few Czechs in Prague seemed to realize that Slovakia was just the place for a conspiracy, because the Slovakian democratic Party was the biggest singly stumbling block to absolute Communist power in Czechoslovakia. But last week they came to with a jerk. Ferjencik named as the bomb plot's' ringleaders the two general secretaries of the Slovak Democratic Party. They were Jan Kempny and Milos Bugar-both Catholics, both members of the Czechoslovak Parliament...
Down at U.C.L.A., the big bottlenecks were chemistry and engineering - and the student bookstore, which had a block-long line...
...Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...
Flynn, Hill Block Ends...
...Taft's tour was exciting-thanks to Big Labor. Many labor unions, mostly C.I.O., picketed him. A thousand pickets greeted him in San Francisco. In Los Angeles more than 500 unionists jammed the block in front of the Elks Temple. Some bore signs with crude legends like: "Taft is a stinker, Taft is a schnook, Taft stole a leaf out of Hitler's story book." Some, who were promptly arrested (under a city ordinance) for masquerading, wore Taft-like masks and carried signs which read: "I look like Taft but I don't want to crucify labor...