Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constituency-until it came to the home States of three Democratic Senators who last spring helped defeat the Roosevelt plan to enlarge the Supreme Court: Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward Raymond Burke and Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Its first scheduled stop was Cheyenne...
Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...
...that there were some inhabitants of 53 Mt. Auburn Street, the 50-yard line for all automobile accidents on Plympton and Mr. Auburn Streets, who spent enough time in bed to be disturbed by these accidents, and had sent a petition to the University asking them to put a stop to these nightly crashes...
...transport plane swooped down into the Nashville, Tenn., Airport and rolled to a stop. A crowd gathered round it, crying for Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. & bride to step out. Called one: "See, there he is in the window!" Called another: "He's got a smile just like his father's." Called a third: "He's heard us and is going to come...
...Because of the tremendous crops, nothing can stop business improvement this fall." When famed Economist Roger Babson spoke thus before the Boston Chamber of Commerce last week, he enunciated what is currently the No. 1 bullish hope of the country. In theory bumper crops sold at fair prices provide the huge farming class with such extensive buying power that all commerce benefits. How bumper are crops was last week summarized by revised estimates of the Department of Agriculture, indicating that total value for three major crops of corn, wheat and cotton will be $4,500,000,000, largest since...