Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author C. Hartley Grattan predicts a repetition of the events of 1914, with the U S. caught between blockading and blockaded powers in the Atlantic. In tl Pacific Japan will use force to stop tl flow of U. S. supplies to Soviet Russia via China. Author Lothrop Stoddard's anti-War prescription: float no foreign bonds of combatants in the U. S.; trade with combatants for cash or short-term credits; export no arms or munitions. - ED. Haul Sirs...
...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt: "Of course I'm thrilled to have another granddaughter, and awfully glad she has arrived. I shall certainly hope to see her this summer. If I go to the West Coast to meet the President at the end of his Pacific cruise, I shall stop off to visit them at Los Angeles. Even if he lands at Seattle I shall go around that way." Said Father Elliott, refusing to let newshawks take pictures of his child: "The less said about the baby the better." When Grandfather Roosevelt may see his fifth grandchild was uncertain...
...squadrons of mounted police riding like Cossacks. Truckloads more roared up to the Union Club. Half an hour later the lights flickered on again. Engineers at the city power plant had found the trouble-small black kitten which had fallen against a switch and short-circuited the city. To stop all further Macedonian talk the animal's charred body was solemnly carried out by Government agents for exhibition to the Press and news photographers...
...rose until by 1932 they not only passed Britain but were cutting seriously into the sales of the Indian mills. In 1933 the Indian Government increased the tariff on foreign cotton goods, which was mostly Japanese, to 5%, set the duty on British cotton at 25%. It did not stop the flood and Japan struck sharply back. Her spinners voted to buy no more raw cotton from India Last winter British, Indian and Japanese cotton manufacturers met in Simla, patched up a peace for India. A further cotton conference began in London on St. Valentine's Day. It failed...
...thinking Harvard men should feel highly indignant that one of their number was coarse enough to stop to an act insulting to guests on our shores...