Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation to colleagues already tense with excitement over rumors of undue White House pressure in behalf of the "death sentence.'' His voice throbbing with righteous indignation; Representative Brewster bluntly declared that Presidential Agent Thomas G. Corcoran had approached him just before the teller vote, threatened to stop construction on Passamaquoddy Dam unless he voted for the "death sentence." Inference was that his prompt vote against it had been a righteous protest against such a flagrantly unrighteous threat...
...recruiting agents, offered tempting terms in the name of Power of Trinity, asked from 25? to 50? as an enlistment fee. Meanwhile, on the vague frontier between many a U. S. Harlem and Little Italy, excited black curbstone orators brought scowls to swarthy brows by such appeals as: "Stop buying your gin from Italian saloonkeepers! Every shorty [nip] of gin you buy from an Italian means bullets bought by Mussolini to slaughter our brothers in Africa...
...many another benefit for the fecund. Within a few hours M. Boverat had obtained a police order barring Miss Warner from dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame.'' No attempt, however, was made to stop the Poetess of Naked Rhythm from appearing at frankly bawdy Paris music halls outside which the public was expected to park its sense of shame. More popular than ever. Miss Warner has been cashing in on her indictment all winter, banking the wages of dirt, and appearing at numerous night...
Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...
Last week West Point cadets rejoiced that for the first time in history they would have an occasional chance to stop stumbling over each other's feet, practice with the two young women whom the Roberts' had thoughtfully brought along...