Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days, the engineers told him to ship a heavy solution, halt the tankers at the three-mile limit and dilute with water. This Charlie Payson did, but the engineers later sued for $500,000 as their pay for the plan. Charlie Payson stoutly maintained that the scheme was developed in their own laboratories. The suit was settled out of court. Meantime...
...having supervision of state banks in the state in which such national banking associations are located may have under state laws now in force or hereafter enacted. If a state Bank Superintendent "froze" 80% of the assets of all state banks and limited withdrawals of deposits to 20% to halt runs, the Comptroller of the Currency, under S. J. R. 256, could promptly do likewise with national banks in that state. His powers in each state were limited only by that state's banking laws-a fact which prompted the Treasury to send out a hurry call...
...that "Danton did not attain even to the Tammany definition of an honest man," when he asserts that Talleyrand "took no open part" in the controversy of the Three Estates of 1789, when he commits the flagrant sin of perpetrating anti-climactic epigrams, it is time to call a halt...
...into the legislative chamber, presented to a joint session of the Legislature two sets of demands for relief, including a mortgage moratorium law. Then all went peaceably home. Next day Nebraska's Senate and House Judiciary Committee voted to report out Governor Bryan's bill to halt farm foreclosures for two years...
...greatest claim to fame is being co-author of the 18th Amendment. The happiest, proudest day of his 57 years (30 of them in Congress) "came Aug. 1, 1917 when the Senate wrote national Prohibition into the Constitution. Every Jan. 16 since, all Senate business has had to halt while the "Father of the 18th Amendment" delivered an oration to commemorate the Amendment's effective date...