Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana's Governor McNutt signed a one-year moratorium whereby no property will be sold for back taxes. ¶ Iowa's Governor Herring appealed by proclamation for a halt on foreclosures until the General Assembly could act. ¶ Distressed agrarians, members of the Root Hog or Die Club, marched to St. Paul, Minn., demanded land tax reductions from Governor Olson. Their story: "We were promised years ago that the gross earnings tax would cut the levy; that the gas tax would cut the levy; that the auto tax would cut the levy. . . . These taxes have never...
Announcement of these initial loans last week, five months after the system was created, did not come in time to halt a concerted Senate drive to wipe the Home Loan Bank Board out of existence. Its record of inaction outraged Senator Borah who week before offered a sweeping repealer. Said he: "The act is proving wholly unsatisfactory. We are going to build up a tremendous institution at very great expense without any real benefit...
...hung up. Another story indicates the utter seriousness with which Actress Cornell takes the theatre, no matter on which side of the footlights she happens to be. At a performance by Eleanora Duse, a celebrated actress and her companion assisted the audience in bringing the play to a momentary halt by standing up and cheering. From behind them came the authoritative voice of Katharine Cornell: "Sit down, you damned fools...
...weeks the Red march on Congress had been in the making. Herbert Benjamin, its Washington advance agent, had vainly sought parade permits from Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner. His attempts to rent local quarters for his followers had been equally unsuccessful. But his failures did not halt the marchers. From Boston, Providence, New York, Albany, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. New Orleans, Birmingham and Philadelphia streamed a black-&-White horde of Reds, traveling in rented trucks and wheezy old cars. Their demand: $50 for every jobless citizen. One city cold-shouldered the motorcades along to the next. At Wilmington...
Denikin's, Kolchak's and Petlura's White armies, struck the naked Polish flank. The Poles began a retreat which did not halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping...