Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the point of view of ability to stop Governor Roosevelt, the results of the Pennsylvania primaries are almost as important as these of Massachusetts. His campaign in Pennsylvania was more free from local prejudices, and from the assistance (both positive and negative) given by the actions of state politicians. The fact that he was nevertheless a close second to Roosevelt indicates that throughout the country there is a body of Democrats determined to stop the New York Governor, and willing to use Smith to that end. It is difficult to believe that he, who has been called our greatest...
...prominent Democrat on the theory that it is a stopgap. Who ever said it was anything else? It is at least better than nothing and infinitely better than a continuance of the disguised dole in States and municipalities. . . . The country is flooded with statesmen who orate and stop at that. Oratory puts no body to work...
Shouted Laborite John Holland, "If the Government doesn't stop quibbling and help the unemployed, then what's happened so far is only the foretaste of what's going to happen...
...does not stop there. Taking a $5 bill as typical of all U. S. engraved currency he condemns it on these counts...
...friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September 1933, sail to a base at Framheim on the Bay of Whales, from there fly east without stop over a 1,450-mi. route, then back again, bisecting the Antarctic Continent. Purposes: 1) to determine topography and weather conditions; 2) to find out whether oceanic indentations continue troughlike, dividing the continent in two parts...