Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Russia established a base at the North Pole last month (TIME, May 31 & June 14), many were skeptical about the Soviet's announced intention of inaugurating a Moscow-San Francisco airline. Last week skeptics were confounded when a Russian plane nonchalantly flew non-stop from Moscow to the U. S. via the North Pole...
Although the U. S. and its big South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires ever since, has yet to produce a permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural...
...trial last week, other evidence darkened the picture. Found near the spot where she had approached the dogs was a capsule which had contained cyanide of potassium. A former chauffeur of hers testified he had resigned "in disgust" because she used to have him stop the car while she got out to give capsules to stray cats. When the cats keeled over she would deliver them to an S. P. C. A. shelter. "She handled as many as 30 cats a day," testified this witness...
...Bernard dogs have a record of ten centuries of heroic achievement behind them. But Dr. Jean Bremond was not thinking about records when he demanded last fortnight that all the dogs at the Great St. Bernard Hospice in Switzerland be destroyed, that the monks stop breeding them. If this were done, Dr. Bremond said he would not sue the monastery over the horrible death of his ten-year-old daughter, Marie-Anne, fatally mangled by a pack of St. Bernards as she and her father skied up to the hospice last month (TIME...
...kidnapped, begged him to come to her in a South Side restaurant. Skeptical, Mr. Prentice called Margaret Montgomery's roommate, who immediately notified the police. To them, Nurse Montgomery babbled that two men had abducted her, bound her, released her when she promised to warn Mr. Rockefeller to "stop being a great lover." Under further questioning, Nurse Montgomery admitted that the whole tale was a hoax to renew Mr. Prentice's interest in her. "I wanted to be a martyr," confessed she. "Some woman called me and told me he was going with another girl." "Well...