Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five companions went there, lay in ambush, all on one side of the road to avoid a crossfire. One of the Texas deputies sighted a car speeding toward them at 85 m.p.h. It slowed down to pass a truck. The officers shouted an order to halt. Barrow reached for a gun. The officers fired. The car careened into an embankment. The fusillade continued: 167 shots. 50 of which hit the occupants. Barrow was found with the door of the car half-open and a sawed-off shotgun in his hand. Bonnie Parker, wearing a red dress, was doubled up with...
...economic conditions in general. Two months ago one of the two or three most eminent papers in Germany, the 230-year-old Vossische Zeitung, died from loss of circulation (TIME, April 9). Since Hitler, 350 newspapers have gone out of business, including the considerable Deutsche Tageszeitung. Striving to halt the decline, which has struck his own paper as hard as any other, Minister Goebbels addressed a meeting of the German Press Association, cursed them for "cringing lapdogs" and demanded more courage, more constructive criticism of the regime...
...York, May 31--Business got so brisk aboard the U. S. Boggs, communication ship of the Fleet, that the captain had to call a halt on messages to sailors. One girl sent twelve messages to twelve sailors--on different ships, another asked a gob to "Phone at once, Pete's out of town...
Washington, Not without the secret approval of the Roosevelt Administration was the buck so neatly passed to the U. S. President Hoover had earnestly tried to halt the shipment of arms to the Chaco. Then in April 1933 the House had passed an Administration resolution authorizing the President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into...
Ever since Japan's famed declaration of her Far Eastern policy the world's eyes have turned to Britain. Would she stand by the Nine Power Treaty? Would she call a halt to Japanese imperialism? Calmly in the cool greenish light of the House Sir John Simon announced last week that she would...