Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Hippodrome platform, following Senator Owen and famed Inflation-Senator Thomas, Father Coughlin raised his arm, wagged his finger at a hysterical crowd. Shrilly he yelled: 'Stop Roosevelt! Stop Roosevelt! Stop him from being stopped! And when Franklin Roosevelt is stopped, I imagine that I will be broadcasting from the North Pole...
...carry on meanwhile another Radical Socialist was chosen, drab, henchmanly M. Camille Chautemps who once before did stop-gap duty as Premier, that time for only five days (TIME, March 10, 1930). As announced, the Chautemps Cabinet was virtually the same as that led until last week by Albert Sarraut and previously by Edouard Daladier (see p. 17). In the Chautemps Cabinet, M. Sarraut returned to the Naval Ministry he held under Premier Daladier, M. Daladier kept the War Ministry he held under Premier Sarraut and that shaggy-maned comet of the Paris bar, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, continued...
...Chicago officials of the four utilities companies which have been paying Fugitive Insull pensions amounting to $21,000 per year decided to stop further payments...
...movement that by the time Dollfuss, using the Nazis as a bogey, declared a fascist dictatorship, the Socialists had not one revolutionary kick left in them. They did not even attempt a general strike; they merely acquiesced. This was partially due to Dollfuss' cleverness in declaring the dictatorship to stop the Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus and by slowly abolishing their major taxes. No blow...
...Labour Party is perhaps not far off. Recent municipal elections, good indicators, have been strongly Labour. Predictions of a Labour victory in the next general election are heard more frequently. If Labour should finally get a working majority and really attempt something, there is the House of Lords to stop it, produce a stalemate. The King would piously call for Nation before Party, allegiance to England above a class. All was rehearsed in 1931. Only add rule by Orders in Council to the creation of a National Government; it would be legal and it would be dictatorship, what more...