Word: halts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinks he is Grover Cleveland, he has never read the story of that administration. Mr. Cleveland went down fighting for sound, progressive principles; the temper of the country, not his record, was responsible for his defeat. Mr. Hoover, on the other hand, failed to take sufficiently constructive action to halt the depression; the temper of the country and his record combined to beat...
Slocum announced last night that banning of the issue will not halt work on the next Advocate...
...State for Foreign Affairs, the star Cabinet portfolio. Last week a British Royal Air Force plane carried "Flying Sam" to Geneva where he at once dwarfed handsome young Captain Anthony Eden, His Majesty's Minister for League of Nations Affairs. All the world knew that if any voice could halt Dictator Benito Mussolini's prospective war of African conquest, that voice was Great Britain's? the calm, chilling voice of Sir Samuel Hoare...
...along at 30 m.p.h. on balloon tires. An unmotorized division could not have made the required march in less than 24 hours. The Germans in their record-breaking march through Belgium reached the unheard of figure of 20 miles a day. The motorized First Division, frequently flagged to a halt by umpires who told the advance units of "enemy fire," "gas shells," etc., reached its objectives before noon. The mechanized cavalry penetrated 30 miles in less than two hours. One of the brigades on the road passed a given point in six minutes. Best of all from the standpoint...
...this means Secretary Morgenthau hoped to silence the telephone which had filled his ear with the profuse complaints of silver men, demands that the Treasury ought to step in and halt the fall of silver prices. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt in June 1934 pacified the Senate silver bloc by promising to buy silver until 1) it reached $1.29 per oz., or 2) the Treasury held one-third as much silver as gold, Secretary Morgenthau has been held personally accountable for the price of silver...