Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After MacDonald and Baldwin came Chamberlain, who "liked to be called 'British like beef,' " but was really "an eccentric figure behind a disguise of excessive normality." The appeasers were in. "All they wanted was to lay their heads on the block and be left in peace, peace!" Von Ribbentrop came visiting and proselyting. "A wave of political perversion broke over polite society...
Norman Thomas gained 70 votes in the late balloting, bringing his total in the University to 177. A substantial block of these votes came from the Faculty and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Browder's backing rose to 50 on the strength of support from the same groups...
...molybdenum. They offered 5 to 6% more than U. S. prices for Mexican antimony, copper, fluorspar, tungsten. Another Mexican motive was thought to be a covering move against possible U. S. embargo pressure: Mexico could tell the U. S. she would gladly embargo oil, but could not block operations of Japanese-controlled firms actually operating in Mexico...
...months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from the day he was hired until election day. Furthermore, in order that Frank Gibler might really be paid, the Board last week ordered the estate with all its recreations to be put on the auction block-which in this case was also an execution block. If the cause of Juan Andreu Almazan was dead, it was partly because Mexico has developed very legal means for political assassination...
...Sears, Roebuck Heiress Mrs. Marion Rosenwald Stern (represented on PM's board by her man-of-business Nathan Levin who runs the 70-odd Rosenwald family money pools), buyer of PM's No. 1 block of stock, representing a $250,000 investment...