Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idle and the rest of the Corporation's 69 plants and 211,000 employes seemed doomed to follow before another week was out. The prodigious consequences of such a shutdown were foreshadowed as G. M. suspended advertising, while out to hundreds of independent partsmakers and material suppliers went stop orders on steel, rubber, tools, lights, batteries, brakes, upholstery, carburetors, radios, many another part and accessory...
Despite the fact that the Sixth Commandment would seem to dispense with the possibility, it is theologically possible to postulate a just war. But just as this has been overlooked by those who look to the Papacy to stop another world conflagration, so it would be of no weight in preventing the Catholic Church from cracking down on any belligerent. A great Pope could outlaw any nation or nations...
...Congress, to help stop bloody war in the Chaco jungles, authorized the President to forbid shipment of U. S. arms and munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. President Roosevelt promptly proclaimed such an embargo, kept it in force until November 1935. Last January Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. and others were indicted for selling 15 machine guns to Bolivia during the embargo. In defense they argued that Congress had improperly delegated its power to the President. A Federal District judge in Brooklyn agreed with them, dismissed the indictment. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court...
...time for the Biological Survey at $3.50 per day, proceeded to expound the law. Caught flagrante delicto, flustered Mr. Justice Van Devanter cried: "Indeed, I'm sorry. I assure you that I'm heartily in favor of anything that will help conserve ducks, and I'll stop at the post office on my way back and buy the stamp...
...Oliver Hart Dyke's father was Sir William Hart Dyke, Disraeli's Parliament whip, friend of Charles Dickens, lawn tennis pioneer. Month after he died, aged 93, in 1931, his wife followed him to the grave. Inheritance taxes of $500,000 forced Son Oliver to stop living at Lulling-stone Castle, family seat of the Hart Dykes for almost 300 years. Enterprising Lady Hart Dyke promptly started a silkworm factory in Lullingstone Castle. "I've been very keen on silkworms since I was seven years old," she explained last week, "and later I began to study them...