Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injunction was refused to the Longa Co. and Hacendado Alberto Danadieu: who sought to stop further land expropriation in the State of Sonora. Pudgy-cheeked President Cardenas made plans to supervise personally the land-division in Sonora, where are located the haciendas of such newsmaking names as Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the John Hays Hammond estate, the Richardson Co. of Arizona...
Says You: "Every 99 women out of a 100 have, or think they have, a bosom problem. . . . Stop thinking of your bosom as an isolated problem. Instead think of it in relation to your general health and well being. . . . An adept masseuse may treat your bosom without causing injury but you might better have spent your time and money on a merry-go-round. . . . Freak diets which cause rapid reduction ravage the bosom. . . . If your breasts are out of fashion today, they may be in fashion tomorrow...
...music festivals, and adopted the name, Salzburg Opera Guild. Last summer, rehearsing twelve hours a day in a rented castle at Mondsee near Salzburg, the Guild increased its repertory of operas. Last week, under the management of astute S. (for Sol) Hurok, the Guild made its Manhattan debut, first stop in a tour of 100 U. S. cities...
Birthday. Ida Minerva Tarbell, last of the original "muckrakers," who made her name by her book, History of the Standard Oil Co. (1904); her 80th; in Manhattan. Last week Miss Tarbell, who has three books in progress, said, "I can't stop. I don't come under Social Security...
...husky, sharp-witted Vigo fisherman Gonzalo, as to most other Spaniards, Magellan's reputation was ugly. When the rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened...