Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reserve Governor responsible for the dollar in Havana, he has saved national banks there by rushing them millions in cash by train and plane to stop runs. The worst crash in his own area was that of Caldwell & Co. ("We Bank on the South.") He was one of the first to see and say out loud that the U. S. would never ballyhoo itself out of the depression. In 1930, he tossed aside a speech, prepared for the Investment Bankers Association meeting at New Orleans and drawled out his now famed dictum...
...phrasemaking Brother Charles who named the Fair "A Century of Progress" and who, when Samuel Insull bogged down, took over the finance chairmanship. But soon after he got back from Ambassadoring in London he had Reconstruction Finance Corp. to run, and after that a run on his bank to stop, and after that a new bank to build. So Brother Rufus has really done most of the work from all angles. He has not permitted money to be spent until it was in hand, has never let the Fair's bank balance fall below $1,000,000. As they...
...where he had been going under the name of "Mr. Smith." He had a new plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo's squadron flight to the U. S. next month. He got big headlines by describing his unusual preparations for the ordeal of flying solo two days and a half...
...leggers hideaway where an automobile accident has stranded her to more commodious quarters in a city sporting house. When her respectable suitor calls there to subpena the gangster, Trigger, in a trial for the murder of one of his underlings, Temple tries to leave, shoots Trigger for trying to stop her. When she tells all this on the witness stand, her respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema hero of the year. He gathers Temple in his arms, tells her stupid father they should both be proud...
Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...