Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climax of the encampment was to have been a triumphant march along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. But as the marchers, dampened by a drizzle and closely shepherded by 500 police, approached the Emergency Hospital and were asked to stop chanting, they obeyed. When a White House car pulled up with a request to divert the march to the auditorium of the Labor Department, they obeyed again. There they cheered David Lasser's reading of a message from Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, expressing the President's regret that "it is not within our power" to reinstate...
Macaulay: ". . . There is nothing to stop you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. . . . Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your Republic will be . . . laid waste by barbarians in the 20th Century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth...
...students demonstrated against "Fascist" Cedillo. The Minister of Agriculture peevishly complained that the undergraduates, many of them students he had appointed, should remain loyal. He wired Cárdenas at Yucatan: "Order War Department to present for my disposition 200 soldiers to be sent to Chapingo Agricultural School to stop riots. Should you fail to comply . . . please accept this as my resignation. . . ." The threat failed. Cárdenas replied, "Your resignation has been accepted." General Cedillo hurried his bulk off to the safety of his own bailiwick...
...Commerce finally declared that it would not permit the race (TIME, May 31). By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall, but stubborn Minister Cot refused to call off the idea. As a substitute publicity stunt for the Exposition, he devised a race from Istres, France, non-stop to Damascus, then back to Paris with as many stops as entrants wished. Last week this flight took the air with tremendous fanfare...
...from Port Washington three days later climbed the high-sided Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia for her sixth Atlantic crossing via Newfoundland and Ireland. Including a stop at Montreal, she got to her base at Foynes, Ireland in 20 hr. 27 min. flying time, just as her sister ship Cambria was getting set to reverse...