Word: halts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order at noon, 88 Senators answered their roll. At 1:20 the Senators, led by Vice President Garner, marched out of their chamber two-by-two, passed down the Capitol's central corridor. In front of the main door of the House, the procession came to a halt...
Black Ink for Red. The two big prospective deficits of 1934 and 1935 will boost the public debt to $31,834,000,000 by July 1, 1935. At that date the President would call a halt: "We should plan to have a definitely balanced budget for the third year of recovery [1935-36] and from that time on seek a continuing reduction of the national debt. This excess of expenditures over revenues amounting to over $9,000,000,000 during two fiscal years . . . is a large amount but the immeasurable benefits justify the cost. ... If we maintain the course...
Unstinted diligence on the part of Captain deGive in the nets, and determined although futile endeavor displayed by the rest of the team were not sufficient to halt the avalanches of powerful rushes of the McGill sextet as the Scarlet horde swamped the Crimson skaters to the tune of 12-2 in the Boston Garden last night...
...editorial's intent, it was the department of History which gave Harvard's tutorial system birth; the division of History, Government, and Economics has taken the lead in encouraging its growth: today, the officers of this division are the most outspoken opponents of the movement to halt that growth, even temporarily, by financial restriction. It is clear that no sensible man can overlook this record. But it is equally clear that he cannot overlook the significance of the intrusion of a contrary note into the discussions of this particular department. For that intrusion must be interpreted as bringing...
...effect has been slight thus far but the advocates of the Warren plan insist that its full significance will not become apparent until about January, and that meanwhile the halt in the decline of commodity prices as revealed by the latest indexes is an encouraging sign. If the downward curve is stopped and even turns upward only a little each week, the results would be what the administration hopes to achieve...