Word: halting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Publisher McLean was about to sell the Post reputedly for $3,000,000 either to Publisher Hearst or to Publisher David Lawrence of the United States Daily (see above) when Mrs. McLean got the court to halt proceedings long enough for her to make a bid on behalf of her children. When negotiations were resumed, "Ned" suddenly announced in court that he had changed his mind about selling (TIME, July...
...morning 20 minutes after the market had opened President Richard Whitney mounted his rostrum, rang the electric gong. What trading there was came to a halt. Gravely President Whitney announced that Member McKeon had been suspended from the Exchange for one year. The charges were that on April 28 (a day when prices were falling) Member McKeon "made offers to sell securities for the purpose of upsetting the equilibrium of the market and bringing about a condition of demoralization in which prices would not fairly reflect market values, and thereby was guilty of acts inconsistent with just and equitable principles...
...shoes, hosiery, handbags, underwear) was preparing a broad educational campaign to boost values, to calm down advertising writers. Many worsted & woolen makers feel that right now women do not want high quality so much as low price because of rapid style changes. They think "high styling" will have to halt before the buyers will pay for durability...
Darkness finally brought to a close one of the most farcical games of baseball ever witnessed on Soldiers Field when umpire Barry called a halt at the end of the eighth inning yesterday while Harvard was leading Boston University by the absurd margin of 26 runs. The final score was 29-3. The epithet of "track-meet" could hardly be applied more appropriately than to yesterday's debacle when the Crimson batters pounded out a total of 27 hits assisted by eight errors on the part of the visiting nine...
...Lord Jesus Christ. The fact is they hear too little of it and when they know it, they glory in it as Paul did. If this Methodist movement is the fruitage of the liberalism which is assuming more and more to manage Church affairs, the sooner we call a halt, the better...