Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real menace to the nation as a whole, believes Mrs. Robert W. Lovett, vice-chairman of the Women's Organization for National Pro- hibition Reform and chairman of the Massachusetts Branch. Mrs. Lovett feels that the men who voted for the tavern have broken their pledge to stop the return of the saloon. "After proof of the power of an organized minority typified by the passing of the eighteenth amendment, it is incredible to me that the citizens of this state should be willing to accept dictation by another small group, that is to say by those men who made...
Trouble with the mortar between the bricks found in the Business School Buildings has also been discovered in the Houses and on the stone facings of the gates about Dunster House. Workmen have been at work for several weeks in an effort to stop the decaying of the mortar on the gate posts. The stone facing on the posts is only one half an inch thick and the mortar has dried and fallen from its position, leaving the concrete beneath to the exposure of the weather which has already started to rot the inner section of the pillars. Expensive major...
Logical argument, of course, is a particularly inefficacious mode of attack against anything so completely irrational as American censorship. The only way to stop definitely and forever the gyrations of our censors is to concentrate the weight of public opinion upon them; since they are hardened, by the very nature of their work, against derision from the masses, the only feasible method of getting at them is through the courts. Judge Woolsey has it in his power to set a valuable precedent, and to make more difficult the way for the semi-moronic individuals who watch over the public morals...
...Wall Street to certain provisions in this bill is well known. Apparently the reason is that shrewd Felix Frankfurter has written a law in which their sharp lawyers could find no loophole. Loudly they proclaimed that with the director's responsibility and full publicity clauses, the act would stop all new investment. Since last June, in fact, there has been only a trickle of investment...
...they could take off. Arriving in Lisbon, Colonel Lindbergh discussed the possibility of a transatlantic terminus there with a representative of Pan American Airways, for which he has been making his European tour, and two representatives of British Imperial Airways. He denied rumors that he would attempt a non-stop flight back to the U. S., justified his reticence about his plans on the ground that many aviators have been killed because they felt obliged to make a flight, once announced, even though conditions became unfavorable. While newshawks continued to guess at his plans, he & Mrs. Lindbergh picnicked...