Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better have those brakes fixed or you'll be getting into trouble," Contractor Rauch replied that he could not afford to. Last August, Contractor Rauch ordered Negro Louis Washington to make a delivery in the truck. Driver Washington lost control of it in Jamaica, could not stop until after he had run down and killed Mrs. Katherine Brown, a 57-year-old Negro...
...Ireland, the Cavalier's twin, the Caledonia, stripped of all fittings to make room for extra gas tanks, circled for hours over the sea to give Imperial personnel a taste of ocean flying, then droned off on a non-stop jump to Egypt...
...Square Garden as well as of every principle of good sportsmanship, Champion Braddock signed a contract, approved by the Illinois State Athletic Commission, to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago's Comiskey Park on June 22. Madison Square Garden threatened it would go to court to stop the fight...
...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...
...yodels a Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields song called The Whistling Boy when a crowd of urchins follows her into a rehearsal hall. When her husband (Gary Grant), whom she has acquired as a convenient way of complying with U. S. immigration quota laws, is trying to persuade her to stop regarding their union as a marriage of convenience, it is the cue for her to render something called Our Song in a forest whose birds stop twittering to listen. At her husband's country lodge, complying with the new convention whereby Metropolitan Opera stars show cinema patrons how jolly...