Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When early this spring France and Britain began to form their Stop Hitler bloc, they wanted an alliance with Turkey. Quickly the Turks signed up with Britain, but to join France they asked a price: out & out annexation of Hatay...
...courage. The first car turned the corner right in front of him. The Archduke's car started to turn also. General Potiorek called: "That's the wrong way. Drive straight down the Appel Quay." The driver put on the brakes. The car came to a full stop in front of Princip...
...luck. Last year the Government mixed wheat flour with so much corn there was not enough left for polenta (corn meal mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...Favored C. I. O. over A. F. of L. 2. Appointed a former Socialist as her assistant. 3. Boasted the Administration would continue to "spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect." 4. Made no effort to stop sitdown strikes. 5. Refused to deport an alleged Communist Labor 'official...
...Stop selling munitions to Japan...