Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hylan, then Mayor of New York, appointed him special deputy police commissioner, to launch an advertising campaign against street accidents. He invented Aunty J. Walker, a miniature policewoman with a night stick and fetching bonnet, and put her in the corner of his posters to admonish pedestrians to stop jay walking...
...tenor Henrico Ferraro dodges his ranting manageress, Non-Stop Nora, to strike an acquaintanceship with a garrulous and none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted...
...placid were their lives last week however. In Washington the partners with their staff, lawyers, trunks full of records, occupied three floors of the Carlton Hotel. Their private detectives patrolled the corridors. The hotel elevators were forbidden to stop at the Morgan floors except for passengers with credentials...
Next witness was Frank W. Black who made out Mitchell's income tax reports. Mitchell had told him, he testified, that the $666,666.67, which the Government claims he concealed, was a loan from National City Company and not a bonus. To stop this line of defense, Medalie told the court that this item had been written off National City's books, was therefore no loan...
...farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated a stop watch. Still falling, at 144 m.p.h., he took time to dry his goggles. As his body dropped into denser atmosphere, its speed was slowed to about 120 m.p.h. Not until he was down to 3,500 ft. did Jumper Tranum yank open his 'chute. The violent check...