Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself in favor of continuance for another year of the present temporary bank deposit guarantee scheme. This scheme, which guarantees deposits only to $2,500 each, and imposes only a limited liability for losses on banks subscribing to the guarantee was originally accepted by the Administration only as a stop gap, to be succeeded July 1, by permanent deposit insurance at a cost of no man knew what. 2) He wrote letters to the Senate and House Committees on Agriculture in favor of compulsory cotton crop restriction by a ginning tax (TIME, Feb. 19), tacitly admitting that last year...
Though they sang of him thus irreverently, most Princeton men were sorry when in 1925 Dr. Howard McClenahan, physics professor and dean of the College since 1912, left to become secretary of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. Esteemed as an able teacher and wit, he was always ready to stop for a friendly chat on his cane-clumping jaunts about the campus. But he had another, official manner-head back, eyelids drooping, speech slow and precise - which made many an under graduate quake...
...study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...
...first thing he did was to stop cash dividends, pay in stock instead. Then he collected $8,915,000 in cash owed by an Ohio subsidiary, added $4,000,000 from the sale of an interest in the Seaboard Division to the Standard Oil of New Jersey, and $11,000,000 from earnings. By December 1932 bank loans had been cut $24,000,000. That year the company earned $17,204,000. Between January and June 1933 he paid off another $9,500,000 out of earnings. Last month two more subsidiaries each paid obligations...
...long did Melvin Traylor's heart stop beating before it stopped for good...