Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn from the Conference! She is afraid it will try to stop her war with Bolivia" (TIME, July...
...outcome seemed so certain that nobody worried much when both Buckler's kicks for extra point failed. The break came in the final period after a march from midfield. Notre Dame's smiling Halfback Nick Lukats ripped through and around Army's line, did not stop until he had rammed over Army's goal. Quarterback Bonar kicked the extra point. A few minutes later Lukats sent a prodigious kick 70 yd. to Army's 8-yd. line where Notre Dame's giant Tackle "Moose" Krause downed it. In Buckler's place, a yearling...
...clergy was plump, garrulous Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn who stormed at Father Coughlin: "The man is an infernal nuisance. He has gone mad with popularity. . . . Members of his Church despise him. . . . His Bishop is even worse than he is. The Bishop has it in his power to stop him and he has not done so, although appeals have been made to him by the most outstanding ecclesiastics in this country. I believe that the time has come when the Apostolic Delegate should step in and stop this wild ranting that is disgracing religion...
...each & every automobile dealer in the U. S. last week went a fat little pocket manual to put a stop to this competitive method of price cutting. As an appendage of the automobile dealers' code under NRA, the manual listed the maximum trade-in allowance on every make and model of car. No dealer could offer a customer more without violating the code. risking punishment. The prices listed were compiled from nation-wide second-hand sales by the National Automobile Dealers Association, which issues its Official Used Car Guide on prices each month...
...prices of farm products and thus subsidizing the land-holding peasantry, active backbone, if prosperous, of any regime aimed at safeguarding private property. Dairy products are an indication; butter has risen in price by about one third, cheese by 30 per cent, cream by 25 per cent. Moral: stop the proletariat with the peasantry...