Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election Governor Roosevelt got out and humped himself for the national nomination. Typical were his activities during June 1931: 1) attendance at the Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind. where he worked into a non-partisan speech a full-length campaign platform which stole the headlines; 2) a stop-over in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," to see Governor White, James Middleton Cox and the local Democratic bosses; 3) a trip to Manchester, Mass, to call on Col. Edward Mandell House whose support he enlisted. In July he appeared at the Charlottesville (Va.) Institute of Public Affairs, held court...
House gallery, slung one leg over the railing, brandished a .38 calibre revolver and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I demand 20 minutes to address the House. Whoever tries to stop me will die. Is that understood? I want to be heard." Twenty feet below on the floor the House was taking a teller vote on a minor appropriation amendment. At the gallery gunner's outcry the hundred members present were seized with honest panic. Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats...
...physical activity in Wall Street, no matter how trivial, is sure to make runners, clerks, bondsalesmen et al. stop and gape. Large groups often gather about a man sawing a board. Last week when truckmen began to unload 60-lb. cases, neatly wrapped in matting, before the House of Morgan, the usual crowd swelled to near-riot proportions. Though the cases were plainly labeled "BLACK TEA-Product of China. Foochow, China," reports quickly spread that J. P. Morgan & Co. had received a huge shipment of gold from the Orient. Guards when questioned muttered: "We don't know nothing...
...cease with the proof of success. There is no question that the President's policy has rained the educational standards of the average man. But the founder attempts to delude neither himself nor his successor. The ideal embraced move than the improvement of the average; for were it to stop there, were there no means to encourage the full development of exceptional ability, mediocrity would be in inevitable character and ultimate frustration. President Lowell reiterates his plan for the foundation of the Society of Fellows...
...resuscitation in cases where the lungs stop working, Dr. Frank Cecil Eve of Hull, England, is recommending a marvelously simple method which he recently devised. He straps the patient on a stretcher, places the stretcher on a trestle, rhythmically teeters the stretcher up & down. The weight of the patient's viscera alternately pushes the diaphragm up & down, forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just...