Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago a gang of WPA workmen were placidly sandpapering the features of a marble George Washington in Philadelphia's dark old City Hall. Suddenly a hoarse, poodle-haired Italian swept among them, seized their abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal Art Jury's most mercurial member, who well knows that sandpaper is not good for the texture of marble. Sculptor Donato forthwith ran to the office of Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, puffed out his complaint. No art expert, Mayor Wilson gave Sculptor Donato authority to complete the cleaning...
Nothing rebels: the ascendant rose must halt...
...with much to say to the Press. In India, Mrs. Sanger said she obtained indorsements from 45 medical associations, founded 50 birth control centres, spoke at 100-odd meetings and "found no opposition in India from any religious group. . . . Everybody accepted the idea that something must be done to halt the increase in population and the inevitable death of women and children...
...Triumph, If it was a bad week for Anthony Eden, it was a glorious week for Il Duce's faithful Geneva delegate, Baron Pompeo Aloisi. The ears of this onetime naval officer have burned for months with bitter messages from his boss over his failure to halt the application of League sanctions. The belated success of Italy's armies in Africa did the Baron no good, but last week he was in a position to crow, and he took full advantage...
...taking any action itself, the Stock Exchange tipped off SEC, which in turn tipped off the New York State Bureau of Securities. Not until the day after the injunction was obtained last week did the gong on the rostrum above the floor of the Exchange bring trading to a halt for the formal announcement that Partner Meighan had been suspended for three years for "conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade in that his firm . . . had engaged in reckless and unbusinesslike dealing. . . ." Later the New York Curb Exchange suspended McCaffrey's Curb members...