Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy is making roads through Ethiopia with the avowed intention of colonizing the country. The Danakils are doing their utmost to stop the process by killing the road makers and their guards. The League of Nations is being strongly urged by Mr. Eden to assist the Danakils in killing the Italians with the object of stopping the road making and forcing Italy to retire discomfited, leaving the primitive tribesmen triumphant over European civilization...
...Government are as much embarrassed by the attacks of Lloyd George and Snowden as a lion facing two gnats." Presently a secretary told Tycoon Cadman that Gnat Lloyd George had declared in what he meant for a stinging attack on His Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop the advance of Mussolini's army, not by one hour! They will not save one Ethiopian life. Sanctions will not prevent guns and ammunition, or any war material or troops, from passing from Italy to reinforce the attack on Ethiopia. They are passing freely now. We are supplying Italy, through...
...held in Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden in 1900. Most models were foreign-built and all were equipped with tillers instead of steering wheels. Steamers and electrics were as popular as gasoline cars. Every afternoon contests were held for the easiest car to start, easiest to stop, easiest to steer. Winner of the steering contest had to navigate safely through a maze of boxes and barrels strewn on a plank track at 8 m.p.h. On the roof of the Garden was a ramp for hill-climbing demonstrations...
...there is a negative constructiveness which interested parties tend to misinterpret, if they are clever; misunderstand, if sincere. If drinking threatens the life of a man, it is constructive to make him stop. Thus, if reckless spending promises to undermine the integrity of the government, it is constructive to make it stop. If men plan to tear down a perfectly good house, which merely needs a new heating system, it is constructive to make them stop. Thus, if the Administration wants to wreck many of the principles on which the United States operates, it is constructive to stop them...
Training his fire on world ills, Mr. Smith declared the depression was the result of God's stretching a chain across the toll road of life and claiming possession. People are then forced to stop and think, and they are dissatisfied with what money brings. "They that sow of the flesh shall reap of the flesh," was the evangelist's concluding volley...