Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That President Roosevelt fears Little Rock may no longer be Gibraltar for his No. 1 Senate wheelhorse appeared last week when it was revealed that the President's forthcoming Western trip would include a stop at Little Rock for a speech in Senator Robinson's behalf...
Last week in Laporte, Ind. Ralph R. Upton, Seattle schoolteacher who in 1912 invented the railroad crossing slogan: "Stop-Look-Listen!" crashed his automobile into a truck, killed himself & wife...
...been pleased to insult him even more consistently than his detractors in the U. S. When Carnera playfully suggested that he must have been drugged before the fight in which he was a brave loser to Negro Joe Louis last June, the Italian Boxing Federation ordered him to stop talking about the bout. When Carnera applied for a passport to return to the U. S.. Achille ("Pantherman") Starace, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered it canceled. Reason: "Carnera's showing is a dishonor to Fascist sport...
...establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt water into the air. The State now bottles Saratoga waters, sells 24-pint cases for $4 each, expects to sell 400,000 cases a year and with the profits...
...drive between 40 and 45 m.p.h., and he likes it. The Pope does not speak to me very often when he is riding. In the Dodge his orders are given through special signals on the dashboard. There are only four of them-for the Italian equivalent of right, left, stop and home...