Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court Justice willed to the U. S. Last week with no less than five bills pending in Congress to use the money to buy law books for the Library of Congress, to buy portraits of former Supreme Court Justices, etc. etc., the President thought it time to stop Congress from quarreling over the legacy. He sent a message to the Capitol, urged the money be put into a trust fund, not to be spent until after "ample deliberation...
...wonder whether the naval architects knew how the Ship of State would finally look. That, explained the President, was why he took frequent trips to Hyde Park and the Caribbean. "To get away from the trees, as they say. and to look at the whole woods. . . . Did you ever stop to think that there are, after all, only two positions in the nation that are filled by the vote of all the voters- the President and the Vice President? That makes it particularly necessary for the Vice President and for me to conceive of our duties toward the entire country...
...silver open face stop watch, Suburban make, Swill 11 Jewels, Case number...
...epidemic is still at the emergency stage. Any measure which officials consider necessary to stop it are justifiable and must be taken. Not until the event has become a part of history should the second and equally important factor be considered, that of allocating the blame and taking adequate steps to prevent its recurrence in the future...
Johns Hopkins' father, a Quaker tobacco grower, freed his slaves in 1807, made his sons stop school and go to work on the family's Virginia plantation. At 24, young Hopkins went into business for himself. The first year he did $200,000 worth of business selling groceries and farm products, mostly in exchange for whiskey. Turning around, he sold the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." For that commerce Quakers expelled him from their meeting but later took him back. He fell in love with a cousin. But her father, fearing effects of consanguinity, forbade the marriage. Neither...