Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primed for Thanksgiving and Christmas trade, the five stores, which do more than half of downtown Philadelphia's retail trade, had customers by the hundreds turn away from their doors. After a few trucks had been overturned, deliveries came virtually to a-halt. At week's end union officials claimed the stores had lost $1,000,000 worth of sales. Dumbfounded were their owners, who had been confident that the city would forbid mass picketing. Instead, Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who devoted his main speech before the U. S. Conference of Mayors in Washington last week to boasting...
...expect this feeling to appear in the form of accords or agreements of any specific kind. The freer President Roosevelt is from the quarrels and doctrines of other nations the greater his authority will be on the day when he sounds an alarm or attempts to call a halt...
...come in contact, and get a grasp of foreign ideals and customs that will give him a keener insight to domestic problems in America. These scholarships form an integral part of the Harvard educational scheme. It is hoped that the capable and worthy will not leave them to the halt and the blind simply because they are too lazy or preoccupied to get their applications in on time...
...these principles that the international action of France is founded on the League. It seeks to strengthen the links between the nations that meet at Geneva to assure to the covenant she has signed more & more force and effectiveness. It seeks to organize mutual assistance. It seeks to halt the armaments race and this country will not cease to repeat her appeal until she has been heard...
...Dictator-following the execution by firing squads of 16 of his critics as "Trotskyites" (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week the hounding and persecution of even faintly suspect Party comrades had reached such ridiculous lengths that Party headquarters in Moscow, with or without orders from Stalin, called a halt and slapped into Soviet newsorgans glaring examples of overzeal...