Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...departure from Washington March 4. Immediately after Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes the oath, Citizen Hoover will be whisked to Manhattan by special train. There at 6 p. m. he will board the Panama Pacific Liner Pennsylvania, held seven hours for his convenience, and sail to Panama where he will stop for a week to try for giant sailfish before continuing to California on a Dollar Liner. With him will travel his son Allan, Citizens Arthur Mastick Hyde and Ray Lyman Wilbur, possibly Citizen Ogden Livingston Mills...
...state to the Presidential Palace, General Sandino was asked to stay all night. President Juan Bautista Sacasa used to be a general. When he laid down his arms at the U. S.'s behest, his subordinate, Sandino, refused to do likewise, fought on, always declaring that he would stop fighting if and when the Marines were withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms as agreed...
Only good that Akron could see in the war was the possibility that it might put a stop to the bigger & bigger concessions that important buyers have been demanding-and getting-for the past few months. From now on, tiremen hoped, the list price would be the actual selling price, not a fond wish. In Chicago both Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co. promptly cut 5% under Firestone's new prices...
...author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...
...this euphemism the National Federated Taxpayers mean: "Let the State stop dole payments...