Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the 20% Axiom, General Erich Ludendorff invented the tactic of "infiltration," opposed to previous mop-as-you-go theories. He postulated that when various parts of an advancing line meet heavy resistance, they should halt; the others, finding weakness, should penetrate and, as the surrounded enemy capitulates, join forces beyond. Usable in big or little units, infiltration was the plan of Ludendorff's big push on March 21, 1918, which almost licked the Allies...
Minor Long's Ray System languished. Meantime Townsendism and Ham & Eggs ($30 Every Thursday) flourished all around him. Because the famed Ham & Eggs plan, like his own, entails circulating warrants, Minor Pierce Long last month went to Federal court in San Francisco, asked Judge Martin I. Welsh to halt preparations for California's Ham & Eggs referendum November 7. Judge Welsh issued a temporary injunction, threw a bad scare into Ham & Eggers. Last week Judge Welsh agreed with Minor Pierce Long that Ham & Eggs and the Ray System resemble each other in some respects. But he found "no identity...
...greatest, most tragic failure of the Christian Church in modern times was that it was unable to halt the slow march of Christendom toward World War II. The World Council of Churches, a federation of the greatest non-Roman communions, was born too late to help; it is not even yet operating officially. Unofficially, the Council last July summoned a "board of strategy" of 32 men and two women to meet in a Swiss hotel, draw up a program of Christian international strategy. A long statement of their views was published last week in The Christian Century, with an introduction...
...clean out the much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...
Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time tub-thumper for companionate marriage and a Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, called a halt to a psychopathic hearing in his crowded courtroom, snapped on the radio, announced: "This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world," tuned in on a rebroadcast of Hitler's Reichstag speech for one-half hour...