Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minds any idea of wreckage of the New Deal. It is not wreckage. It is a temporary halt. Speaking of NRA alone-after a rough voyage on an unknown, unchartered and foggy sea, during which it tacked and veered and took many wrong courses (for much of which I was to blame)-the fog suddenly lifted and disclosed a blank wall of a seemingly impassable cliff-the decision in the Schechter case. The problem now is not to pick up its wreckage but to steer a course around that barrier...
With his broken arm still in a cast, hulking Premier Flandin held daily bedside conferences with elderly, crop-headed Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin and Governor Jean Tannery of the Bank of France. In 1926 white-chinned old Raymond Poincaré had been able to halt a similar crisis by increasing taxes, by floating a heavy loan on the Government tobacco monopoly. But in national prestige Premier Flandin was no Poincar...
...scratched to a halt. The man lifted his pen again, boldly signed his name: Bowen Tufts. He slipped the note into his pocket...
...insane patients than butter, Neylan barked: "You are more important to the State than your patients. If oleomargarine is so good, you eat it!" He saw that they did. With his toughest teamster tactics he routed so many corrupt officeholders to San Quentin Prison that Governor Johnson called a halt, jokingly told friends that "Neylan was ruining the State Government by putting all the officials in jail...
...Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont. They crossed themselves before a great marble statue of St. Joseph, gazed in awe at the multitude of discarded crutches, braces, trusses which filled the alcoves and niches of the crypt. And of the throng of pilgrims many a halt or ailing one passed on through the crypt to a little office where sat a little old man, known to all as Brother Andre...