Word: halting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried forward by Congressional appropriations, the Mount Rushmore Memorial has long been Sculptor Borglum's biggest, most continuing job, resumed every summer after winters spent on jobs in Texas and intermittent work on Georgia's Confederate Memorial (Stone Mountain) where active operations long since came to a halt. But after ten years of swinging his stocky figure in a leather sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore Roosevelt, has already been roughed...
...increased WPA appropriations to keep needy newspapermen employed, supported (2,685-to-2,271) President Roosevelt's plan for revising the Supreme Court. Only convention action rejected by the membership was a resolution to the effect "That Fascism must be defeated in Spain to halt the anti-labor forces...
...Louis learned to watch for hard punches ducking, taking them on his arms, or rolling away. Louis soon found the range with left jabs, opened cuts under Farr's eves. After more of this Farr's face was badly marked. In the seventh round Louis landed a halt-dozen punishing blows in as many seconds, but the flurry passed. In the 15th and last round, Louis, having tried everything else, tried a right uppercut to the body. It missed. The final gong rang...
John Garner had seen: i) that as matters were going the Court Bill was doomed to defeat and 2) that if this futile issue were forced any farther, the Party would be irrevocably split. He meant to halt events in their tracks and he did so. Next morning after the Democratic leadership fight was settled (see p. 10), Senators Barkley and Harrison were called to the White House to discuss what part of the President's Court Plan could be saved. While they were doing so Mr. Garner conferred with Senator Wheeler, the leader of the opposition, and told...
...only its Fall River and New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Lines, and had planned to let Fall River give up the ghost after this summer. When the National Maritime Union, C. I. O. affiliate, started a series of crippling strikes, the company replied with an order to halt operations. Technically the order was one of "temporary suspension" but General Manager John H. Lofland declared that permanent discontinuance was "virtually certain." Civic groups in Newport (port of call) and Fall River wailed that tourist trade and employment levels would be hit. But there seemed no way to force...