Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois State Commander in 1929. An acknowledged authority on veteran affairs, he was made vice chairman of the Legion's Rehabilitation Committee, had a large hand in drawing up the four-point rehabilitation program. Hayes' opponents attempted to prevent his election as national commander with the cry: "Stop the king-makers!" The "king-makers," they asserted, were six members who have attempted to dictate Legion policies and were thumping for Hayes. They named them as Broker Philip Collins of Chicago; John D. Ewing, publisher of the Shreveport, La. Times; Ben Doris of Oregon; William Doyle of Massachusetts; Patrick...
...same ship was running up the Hudson River off Weehawken, N. J. Customs Inspector Michael Guilfoyle was not suspicious of her but since he had just been ordered to watch every ship closely, he hailed her. "We're bound for Albany," the skipper replied. "We can't stop in this tide." The inspector noted the name on her bow, Texas Ranger. He recognized her cut and markings as familiar, let her go through...
King George heard the crash, the screams, heard the band stop playing. He sent an equerry hurrying out to learn what had occurred. Long before the equerry or ambulances arrived, the felled sentry had righted himself and was standing at stiff attention again, the Brigade of Guards officers were going right on barking commands as though nothing at all had happened...
Before he became "Tsar" Mr. Lederer, now a naturalized U. S. citizen, was the U. S. resident director for Hamburg-American. Months ago he ordered his old business friends of Hapag and former business rivals of North German Lloyd to stop accepting blocked marks. For a while they disobeyed him, later obeyed. Last week Tsar Lederer, after delving through the two lines' books, decided that during their period of disobedience they lured away 4,000 passengers from the other conference lines. He ordered Hapag to pay $69,000 in restitution, North German Lloyd to pay $113,000-this money...
Near Aurora, Ill. L. W. Talbot, driving a truckload of piglets to the Chicago stockyards, had to stop when the road was blanketed by a cloud of smoke from peat fires. Behind him came another truckload of pigs driven by Ellis Johnson, who drove into the smoke, smashed into the rear of Talbot's truck. Behind Johnson came a string of five automobiles. One by one they disappeared in the smoke cloud, each ramming the car ahead. Eighth in line was Elmer Reiser who, suspecting a holdup, swung into the left lane and sped ahead. He smashed into...