Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the Presidential party awakened in its Pullmans on the western side of Tennessee at Nashville. There was a short stop at the State Capitol grounds while Mrs. Roosevelt went up to lay a wreath on the tomb of one of her husband's predecessors, 11th President James Knox Polk. Thousands lined streets and roads as the party continued into the country to breakfast at the old home of 7th President Andrew Jackson...
...Next stop was Town Creek, Ala., and Joe Wheeler Dam. So full was the President of the TVA sights he had seen that by the time he reached Tupelo, Miss., he was moved to make an extemporaneous speech. Extolling the local citizenry for being the first to sign a contract for cheap TVA electricity for its municipal power system, the President observed...
...American plan merely creates a reserve. In time of unemployment the reserve is drawn upon as if it were a savings account and when the account is empty payments stop. Different as the plans sound they do not work out that way in practice. When England put a new insurance law in force last summer, she made the Government responsible for relief. To keep the insurance fund solvent its payments to any one man are limited to about 26 weeks (on a sliding scale) in any one year and the number of weeks he gets benefits decreases as time goes...
...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...returning last week to his estate at Tournefeuille in the south of France. To avoid demonstrations of affections for himself and possible violence to his enemies in Paris, M. and M'me Doumergue left their home by motor at 3:45 a.m., carried sandwiches so that they need stop at no restaurant on their 325-mile drive...