Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college man who "battled four years for a degree," I would like to congratulate Comedian Will Rogers, who recently refused a "kudo." More action like his on the part of other notables would stop this foolishness...
Since the U. S. could not stop these occurrences, the League of Nations tried. Liberia is a charter member of the League, for it had joined the Allies one day during the War when a British warship anchored off Monrovia. The League found that Liberia, besides having no health service, had no budget, no accounts, no money, that its trouble was, as Lord Cecil put it, "the incompetence of the Government and corruption-but rather more incompetence than corruption." The League offered to send Liberia a Government adviser to set things right. President Barclay proudly declined. The League threatened...
...part of the Congress to do something for the people of this country who are suffering from unemployment blocked and stifled by the Senator from Louisiana, are going to sit in the Senate tonight and tomorrow and all this week and from now on until something is done to stop the Senator from Louisiana from controlling the Senate? I submit that question to the Senator from Louisiana...
...League: "The tactics employed to suppress presentation of Waiting for Lefty are familiar and timeworn. Technicalities of the fire laws, obsolete statutes from the old 'blue laws' period, red tape in connection with licenses -all of these are used to bar the play from theatres or to stop performances. But the real issue of freedom of opinion and the right to express it is clearly the crux of the matter. Not only those who are concerned with the theatre but everyone who wants to preserve the American heritage of civil liberties will bitterly resent this arbitrary suppression...
...from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...