Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dart through Adolf Hitler's special guards and kiss Der Führer, as powerful Mrs. Carla George de Vries of Norwalk, Calif, did fortnight ago, may very well be shot down in her tracks, according to last week's Berlin dispatches. For their failure to halt the first woman who has publicly kissed Herr Hitler on the mouth since he became Chancellor three years ago, several of the Dictator's hulking Schutzstaffel guards were dismissed in disgrace last week, several more were demoted in rank and the number of Der Führer's guards...
...front cover) Ten minutes before the short Saturday session officially closed on the New York Cotton Exchange last week, a gong brought trading on the world's biggest cotton futures market to a silent halt. The U. S. Crop Reporting Board, having been locked in secret session in Washington since dawn, was about to release its first estimate of the U. S. cotton crop for the new crop year which opened Aug. 1. Trading also stopped on the country's other two cotton futures markets, in Chicago and New Orleans. On the spot markets scattered throughout the cotton...
...Albany's Charter Day parade came to a momentary halt, a moppet in white scampered up to New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, asked: "Will you please sign your name on my pants?" While the crowd gawped, Governor Lehman squiggled his signature across the boy's bottom...
...world had learned these facts, Patient Morgan, Dr. Denny and party had traveled through Boston and Manhattan and were approaching the Mill Neck, L. I. station about four miles from the Morgan estate at Glen Cove. Mr. Morgan was looking out the window when his train rolled to a halt. Gawpers rushed up to peer in at him. Mr. Morgan pulled down the shade...
...passages from Aesop's Fables in his youthful tenor. It was 11:55 Prn. when the Senate finally gave in. But the House, though too tired for adjournment horseplay, could not stop talking. Not until 12:39 a. m. did Speaker Bankhead's gavel ring to a halt the listless end of the 74th Congress' listless second & last session...