Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning shortly after dawn the Houston halted at Hampton Roads to discharge the last batch of official mail, before passing out between Capes Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of Haiti; another stop at Puerto Rico; and then the three little Virgin Islands which 17 years ago gave up their maiden name, the Danish West Indies, when they were married...
...down the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque with a sister ship to follow, ostensibly as an "answer" to Germany's 10,000-ton pocket battleships. This spring Italy "answered" with an appropriation for two 35,000-ton battleships. Last week there appeared to be no force which could stop a world naval race...
Talk of diminishing fuel oil stocks, however, did not prevent Oil Administrator Ickes last week from devising a new plan to stop ''hot oil" production in Texas. The Department of Justice had failed to approve the industry's plan for a $10,000,000 oil purchasing pool among 29 companies and Congress had gone home without giving him a law to control and punish companies which produced oil in excess of their quotas. Now he cajoled 38 East Texas refiners representing 87% of the companies of that area into a gasoline stabilization agreement. The refiners promised...
...enormous hurt animal. This time Baer hit him three hard cracks before he went sprawling again. The courage which made Carnera get up once more gave dignity to the end of an otherwise brutal comedy. To the referee he mumbled something which he later denied was a request to stop the fight. The referee stepped in front of him, raised Baer's hand in victory. Max Baer was born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work...
...touch with most of the main political actors; a soldier but obviously no Prussian, he has little love for Hindenburg. His diary is peopled almost entirely with knaves and fools. Nearest approach to a hero is Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop the Nazis. he is written off as a ''trimmer." Greatest villain of the piece is old Paul von Hindenburg, who is accused of knifing Brü ning, reluctantly abandoning his favorite von Papen, using Schleicher and striking a deal with Hitler-all because of his anxiety to save...