Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money still owing to the U. S.-private investments of U. S. citizens abroad and $10,300,000,000 of war debts. Obvious, though not explicit, was the point that the President was trying to drive home: the U. S. will have to take more foreign-made goods or stop shipping so much U. S. goods abroad. Once the President got that fact firmly in the public mind, he would have an easier time cutting tariff rates under the law Congress gave him fortnight...
...exciting week of total failure to make London pedestrians stop jaywalking last week put Sir John Gilmour, Bart., grizzled and humorless Home Secretary, into the testiest of tempers. No other Cabinet officer has more direct control over British subjects. Scotland Yard is directly under the Home Secretary; administration of workmen's compensation laws fits into his portfolio; he advises the King when to exercise the right of pardon; he bars undesirable aliens and outranks all His Majesty's other Secretaries of State...
...glory and a D. S. O. through the Boer and World Wars. He has been Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and he believes that every Briton must do his duty by King and Country. That his police should be unable to stop jaywalking last week and unable the week before to create an atmosphere of order at Sir Oswald Mosley's monster Fascist mass meeting in Olympia (TIME, June 18). pained Sir John beyond expression. In the House of Commons he explained the traditional British theory that policemen need not be present inside...
...stop the furious squabbling among Nazi groups bent on founding a 100% Teuton religion. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, himself a Roman Catholic, recently ordered them to unite as Die Deutsche Glaubens Bewegung (The German Faith Movement). Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting ''Back to Wotan!" Others cautiously preparing to argue for "mild revision of the Bible to make it less Jewish." Keynoters were Nazi Editor Fritz Gericke and Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 65-year-old Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff...
...Baer down with him. In the next seven rounds, Carnera pulled himself together sufficiently to keep his feet on the ground and his guard up. Baer took to walking in with his hands down, laughing at friends in ringside seats, chatting in the clinches. In the tenth round, Baer stopped his clowning and started to floor the champion some more. When Carnera had twice hoisted his monstrous frame to its shaky feet Referee Donovan saw that he was dazed and stepped between the men. Before he could stop the fight, the round was over...