Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With guns drawn the officers followed him out of the building, ordering him to halt or they would shoot...
...power plant Yale police arrested a picket captain in the weekend's only near outbreak of violence. The captain attempted to halt the passage through the picket lines of an oil truck. When he resisted a police order to permit the truck to pass, a momentary struggle between pickets and police broke out but quieted with the captain's arrest. Last night he was out on $100 ball...
...quiet conference outside the Senate chamber last week, Majority Leader Robert A. Taft and New Mexico's Clinton Anderson (whose ailing heart was beginning to hamper his leadership of the marathon-talking Democratic opposition) agreed that it was time to call a halt to the 21-day offshore oil filibuster (TiME, May 4). The Senate quickly approved a plan to vote this week on the Holland bill, which grants seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries. In total, the filibuster: 1) aroused no public outcry against the bill, 2) changed few senatorial...
...solid citizen. As a diesel mechanic in Northlake, IIll., he made a good living. He was the first president of the Northlake Home Owners Association, a member of the sewers and water committee, and treasurer of the Northlake Crime Commission which he and other vigilant citizens founded to halt an invasion of Chicago hoodlums. Last month Raboski campaigned (unsuccessfully) for police magistrate. His home was one of the best kept in the neighborhood, and his lawn was the pride of Dewey Street...
...details: ¶ Slashed: the onerous purchase tax. The levy on furs, jewelry, cosmetics and similar luxuries dropped from 100% to 75%; for automobiles, vacuum cleaners and the like, from 66.6% to 50%; for carpets, linoleum, domestic hardware, clocks, watches, toys, etc., from 33.3% to 25%. To halt the disappearance of the London taxicab (TIME, April 20), the heavy purchase tax for London cabs was abolished. ¶ Discontinued: entertainment taxes on amateur theatricals, amateur sporting events and professional cricket matches. "In this country, cricket occupies a special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition...