Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tower of strength to Seattle's uncompromising Labor men was and is Mayor John Francis Dore, one of the most picturesque politicians in the long line of colorful characters who have sat in the city's mayoral chair. When businessmen called for police to stop "violence" at the P-I plant, Mayor Dore said that "while Seattle has a Labor Administration," police would protect no strikebreakers. He is now the objective of a recall petition...
...they had known, Mr. Meehan changed into a tense, excitable nervous case. A marked increase in drinking was noted, and a tendency to rambling talk. Distressed by the fact that Mr. Meehan's condition had become front-page news, one of his partners made haste last week to stop further speculation, declaring: "M. J. Meehan is ... not under restraint. He has been sick about a year and has given no attention to business during this period. His condition is a matter of concern to his family and friends but we are confident . . . that he will soon...
...William Randolph Hearst, still championing a marriage of King Edward & Mrs. Simpson, had his London correspondents stop 100 people last week and ask them whether they were pro or con-a laborious process since it involved explaining about the King & Mrs. Simpson to British subjects, most of whom have never heard of her. Next day Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King...
Andrew was tall, bony, large-faced, the son of a hot-tempered West Virginia landowner, born into what the neighbors said was the "preachingest family in Greenbrier County, with dissenting blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the opposition of his father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along...
...backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted that his organizers dress well and stop at the best hotels. Ed McGrady learned his lesson and today, elegant, with a good cigar in his mouth and the double-breasted manner of a gentleman of substance, he strides into strike conferences as Adolphe Menjou might, enter a ballroom...