Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly the police began to enforce the taxi ordinance, arrested 40 drivers without bond. Taximen, at the strikers' instigation, commenced to circumvent the ordinance by posting "Free Ride" stickers on their cars, accepting voluntary "contributions" from passengers. Public Service, Inc. met this move by hiring persons to ride the free taxis, to contribute nothing, to "break down the service...
...Canary Murder Case, used District Attorney Markham, Detective Sergeant Heath and Super-Detective Philo Vance (William Powell) again to find out who was killing all the Greenes. Perhaps because of the great number of Greenes who must die before the murderer is tracked down, the picture seems to move heavily, doggedly, to the point where erudite Philo Vance patiently explains his solution of the murder, while the murderer lures a final victim away. Best shot: Chester Greene confronted by his murderer...
...Mais, mon ami!" responded M. Briand, advancing a purposely weak argument, "I fear it would be a great hardship to move our troops in the cold winter months. Why not wait till Spring...
Correspondents heard at British headquarters that whatever attitude the French might take, British troops would begin to move out of the Rhineland within a month. At London, the Daily Herald, organ of the present British Labor Cabinet, promptly said...
Last week a third move was made. Armour and Swift petitioned the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to modify the decree. Reason: that times have changed. Two arguments they made in chief: 1) that there are now 70,000 chain stores in the country, many of them selling meat. Already the chains are going into meat packing to supply their requirements-one chain already owns two packing plants and a sausage factory. The effect of the decree is therefore not to prevent the large packers from treading on others, but to be trod upon-to make them subject...