Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if the assumption of the framers of these bills were right, they have left many weaknesses in them. Although they say that trade of war materials must cease in wartime, and that ships under the American flag cannot export certain other commodities, those bills do not actually stop trade in Baxter's opinion...
...motor shrieked to a stop. The gals spun round in their seats in fury and in a tone of voice that defies description screamed, "What do you mean, Radcliffe...
...results of another survey, including observations of the traffic in Harvard Square, will be released shortly after the spring recess. These observations will be of various sorts; for example, the number of people who stop at the flashing red-lights behind the fire station will be counted; the speed of vehicles on Massachusetts Avenue will be computed and averaged by photo-electric cells and by pads on the street itself...
Whether or not it be true that, as Wheeler asserts, approval of the enlargement plan will destroy the President, his further contention that liberal principles will be frittered away by this stop-gap legislation is highly logical. That a liberal of such long-standing as Senator Wheeler stands by this opinion is helpful to more conservative opposition forces. Even this unlooked-for support is overshadowed by that of Justice Brandeis, however, and the marshalling of liberal opinion behind the well-reasoned stand of these men can make for a strong coalition against the President's paternalism...
...three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay's next stop, he liked everything except the French authorities, who asked him to leave. But even in Africa he was pursued by whites. Negrophile Nancy Cunard wrote to him, asked him to contribute to a Negro anthology, was offended when McKay asked to be paid...