Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seals travel in their regular wagons which are loaded on the flat care and moved from stop to stop. This does not disturb the animals at all and they continue their daily swims and usual diet...
...President Hoover shook hands with his callers, stood silently before his desk while Mrs. Peabody took the floor. She read him quotations from his own past speeches and remarks in which he endorsed Prohibition. She demanded more rigid enforcement. She suggested that U. S. Ambassadors be ordered to stop drinking abroad. She warned that her followers would cut any man who ran as a Dry on a Wet platform because "we could not trust the sincerity of any candidate willing to lend himself to such a plan." President Hoover smiled, said nothing. "Mr. Hoover is our man," exclaimed Mrs. Peabody...
...Japanese War Minister General Sadao Araki harangued Japanese Fascists in Osaka: "We are determined to make Manchuria an earthly paradise and nothing can stop us! There is no need to pay any attention to the Washington Nine-Power Treaty or the Peace Pact. If the League of Nations interferes we need only ask, Is the League going to disturb world peace...
Editor & Publisher also anticipated that radio competition would again figure largely in discussions of how to stop further shrinkage of advertising lineage. William A. Thomson, A. N. P. A. advertising director, made cheerful but significant point of the fact that, though newspaper advertising as a whole had fallen off 55 million dollars in 1931 from the 1929 figure, proportionately the same amount of the advertiser's dollar still went to newspapers...
...Mouthpiece (Warner), adapted from an unproduced play by Frank J. Collins, is about a lawyer who had good reason to defend criminals for his livelihood. As assistant district attorney, Vincent Day convicts an innocent man for murder and is unable, when he learns of his mistake, to stop the execution. His methods of atoning for his error are brilliant and unscrupulous. He takes up with a collection of rogues, sees to it that they are not penalized for their crimes. Finally a little Southern secretary (Sidney Fox) makes him ashamed of shabby practice...