Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told," piped the envoy's son, jumping up on a table, "that a naughty Italian wants to kill my people, take our country, and make us his slaves. Dear ladies & gentlemen, please stop this man from being so cruel! But, if you won't stop him, please give us guns, and we will fight him. I am sure God will help us to keep our country...
...went out of the measured mile. I shut off my engine to get its braking effect on the car. Could I stop in the six miles left...
...total but too simple explanation of Fat Chaps would be that Mr. Rickett is lone-wolfing, that he got the concession by making Power of Trinity and his Yankee adviser believe that Standard Oil can stop Mussolini, and having obtained the concession, will now try to sell it to the highest bidder-perhaps even to Mr. Rickett's "friend," Benito Mussolini. The Rickett Concession was granted to "the African Development & Exploration Co." This was recently set up as a Delaware corporation by a discreet Manhattan firm which makes a business of incorporating dummy concerns and keeping their secrets...
Editor Clendenin's criticism of the Annie strip seemed serious enough to the Chicago Tribune Syndicate to prompt it to wire Mr. Clendenin: "Orphan Annie artist ordered to stop editorializing and has already started new series. Feel sure you will like...
...trucking is still the province of nearly 300,000 independent trucking outfits. For years Mr. Keeshin has been trying to persuade truckmen to stop cut throat competition, fix rates. Says he : "There simply was not sufficient honor among them to stick together." Like most big truckmen, he finally asked for Federal regulation. Last week Mr. Keeshin was prime proof of the contention that the new Motor Carrier Law, placing trucks under the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Aug. 19), will help both railroads and big trucking companies at the expense of small, hand-to-mouth trucksters...