Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jeffries' opponent, Councilman Eugene I. van Antwerp, complained loud & long about the price Mayor Jeffries had paid for his U.A.W. blessing. Some two months ago, he charged, Mayor Jeffries had obligingly looked the other way when U.A.W. used roughhouse tactics in an organization drive. Police sent to halt the riots said they had been told privately not to make arrests...
Matters reached a head when H.U.E.R.A. demanded sole bargaining rights for maids and maintenance men, and the A. F. of L. threatened a strike to halt H.U.E.R.A.'s advance. In the meantime, the A. F. of L. had won preferential bargaining rights in the Dining Halls department, and the University had been compelled to grant several wage increases because of the A.F. of L.'s rising pressure...
Directors of the United Farmers of Alberta demanded that the Dominion Government halt Exchange trading in coarse grains, put all buying through the Canadian Wheat Board (which now buys virtually all wheat). In Saskatchewan, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner said: "I am sympathetic to the idea." He was confident that if there were abuses in Exchange trading, the Government would ask Parliament for authority to do what U.F.A. asked...
Last week Caesar Petrillo, whose power over U.S. musicians extends from Toscanini to Harry James, decided that it was time to call a halt on the progress of Edison's handiwork. He ordered the 216,000 members of his American Federation of Musicians to stop making all recordings and radio transcriptions after Dec. 31. He was playing a familiar tune. He had once cracked: "What do I care about science; my boys gotta eat." But this time Caesar Petrillo brought his tune to a crashing crescendo. Said he: "We stop making recordings once and for all-period...
...Wagah, a little town on the grand trunk highway between Amritsar and Lahore on the Pakistan side of the border, armed Baluchi troops, all certified Moslems from the frontier territory of Baluchistan, called a loud halt to travelers trying to go through the border. A mile down the road, at Atari, armed Dogras, who are a Punjabi Hindu tribe, searched and checked all Pakistan-bound vehicles. The mile between the two posts was no man's land. On the Pakistan side, just behind an improvised guardhouse, a bulldozer was digging graves for Moslem bodies which arrived from the India...