Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balfour. Last week pretty Lady Evelyn was among a crowd of more than 100 Essex and Sussex farmers who set upon a bailiff. After rescuing the bailiff, police charged Lady Evelyn and 36 farmers with "unlawful assembly." In Castle Hedingham Court, she protested that she had been trying to stop the riot. With the whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about...
...back on us.'' Said bristling Pilsudski to a group of Socialists long after the World War from which Poland emerged free: "You accuse me of having betrayed Socialism. It is this way, gentlemen: We rode together in a streetcar marked Socialism, but I got off at the stop 'Independent Poland ' " Josef Pilsudski "got off" by desperate battling as commander of his Polish Legions who fought Imperial Russia during the World War, sometimes under their own ensign, sometimes as units-but always distinct units-in the hospitable armies of Imperial Austria. Today such old campaigners as Josef...
...faced the jury and shouted: "The nation has been in the grip of a deplorable wave of kidnapping. As soon as the message is sent out from this room that a jury has said a man shall hang for this kidnapping, you will have taken a big step to stop that wave...
...expansion of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation into a Division, staffed with expert criminologists and lawyers to cooperate with the states in tracking down kidnappers and racketeers. 2) The organization of a mobile detachment under Special Assistant Keenan to concentrate on kidnapping cases. 3) Legislation to stop the sale of firearms to gangsters and criminals. 4) Legislation asking the states to surrender their authority in cases of kidnapping, thus leaving Federal agents free to ignore state lines. 5) The absorption of the Prohibition Bureau by the new Division of Investigation. To direct the new division he selected...
Meanwhile dashing Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "Black Eagle of Harlem," who in 1924 cracked up in Flushing Bay en route to Liberia, announced new plans. On Sept. 15, said the Colonel, he will take off from Floyd Bennett Field on a 7,500-mi. non-stop flight to Aden, Arabia. He secured for the flight a Diesel-powered Bellanca, named it Patience...