Word: halting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finland's present President, jovial Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,* stands no bluffing. Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr"), as he is known to his constituents, promptly put into force an emergency safety law permitting the Government to suppress papers, search houses, halt all armed forces. Next he reorganized the Cabinet, putting in loyal General K. L. Oesch as Assistant Minister of the Interior, specially charged with maintaining public safety. Against Lapuan hopes, the Finnish Civil Guard remained loyal. The Lapuan leaders, General Wallenius and Vihtor Kosula, issued a blast about "fighting to the last man," but thought better...
...other line (except Anchor, a Cunard subsidiary) hastened to follow Cunard's lead to boost travel traffic. U. S. companies continued their attacks on the "nowhere" cruises from New York to New York. Senator White of Maine had two bills before the Senate to halt the practice as injurious to U. S. shipping. U. S. seamen. He rallied supporters at a hearing before the Commerce Committee. Said David E. Grange, president of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union: "A sailor on the beach is just like a defeated United States Senator...
John William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, was recently in San Francisco. Up and down Montgomery Street brokers and bankers guessed that his visit was to bring a halt to the running fight which Amadeo Peter ("A. P."; Giannini was waging on Elisha Walker. Financial re- porters sensed a big scoop when Mr. Pole summoned them to his office in the Federal Reserve Building. But when they arrived he gravely told newshawks he was sorry but he had nothing to say after...
...than in 1913, was again cast in a heroic role. An archfoe of speculation for many a long year, he was bitterly chagrined with 1929?5 great wave of stock inflation in defiance of the Federal Reserve. After a year's investigation he proposed reforms which he felt would halt speculation for good and all?reforms which would alter the entire conduct of a nation's banking, which law-makers called sweeping, bankers devastating...
Before the midyear period calls a halt on Freshman activities at the Union, it has been decided to have a "motion picture night," which will come on Thursday. There will be a complete cinema entertainment showing Charles Chaplin in "The Adventurer," Harvard-Yale football pictures, and "The Covered Wagon," an outstanding feature picture of several years ago. The Union Committee has rented these pictures from the Kotlascope Film Library of Boston. Members of the Class of 1935 will supply the projector and show the films. During the performance, the 1935 Union orchestra will make its initial appearance for the approval...