Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employers, Governor Olson directs all his harsh blows at the union and the strike." Governor Olson, who loves to proclaim his radicalism, found that martial law was gaining him no kudos with Labor. Finally he issued an ultimatum that unless the employers came to terms he would stop all truck movements. He kept his word. The strikers were delighted that troops should do their work of stopping truck movements. The employers bitterly demanded an injunction from the Federal District Court forbidding Governor Olson to continue martial law. The Court ordered the Governor to appear and show cause why truck owners...
...series composed one of the most thoughtful and fair-minded journalistic inquiries into the Depression and such remedies as the Hoover Administration was applying. Last year Ross acted as president of the Gridiron Club. For years he had helped to stage-manage its shows, with the aid of a stop watch to see that no skit, no song lagged beyond its allotted time. Today he has one son at Dartmouth, another at Georgetown...
...known, few laymen would have been greatly interested in such unspectacular record-breaking. But to airmen the performance was wildly exciting. Over a measured course of 311 mi., her motors throttled down to only 69% of their maximum 3,000 h.p., the 8-42 had flown four times non-stop at an average speed of 157.5 m.p.h., carrying the equivalent of her full load-capacity of 32 passengers, crew of five, 2,000 Ib. of mail and cargo...
Thurber struck up a friendship with a quarter-miler named Elliott Nugent, who persuaded him to get a haircut and stop wearing funny clothes. Thurber drifted into newspaper work, was hired from the New York Evening Post by Editor Ross in 1927. A poor judge of men, Ross tried to make Thurber into a managing editor, for months kept him from writing a line. Sad, vague "Andy" White took instantly to sad, vague James Thurber. He salvaged Thurber's neurotic, amorphous scratchpad drawings from the waste baskets by the thousands, finally bulldozed scornful Editor Ross into printing them. Today...
...Leandro, Calif., Judson Doke warned a young student to stop his affair with Mrs. Doke, shot him dead when he refused. To the student's funeral Judson Doke sent flowers. "I have nothing against the boy. In many ways he was a nice lad," said Judson Doke...