Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COLON PERMIT ME TO BEAT JOHN AND RANDOLPH TO THE DRAW BY DISCLAIMING KINSHIP WITH THAT DISTINGUISHED BROTHERHOOD [TIME, Aug. 31] PERIOD NOT THAT I CARE COMMA BUT JUST IN CASE THEY SHOULD PERIOD MY BROTHER IS A TROMBONE PLAYER COMMA UNHEARD OF BUT BY NO MEANS UNHEARD STOP THANKS PERIOD...
...which would have prohibited all but U. S. vessels from plying between the Philippines and the U. S. All these ideas President Hoover stoutly resisted and on one occasion Secretary of State Stimson, as the islands' onetime Governor General, marched to the Capitol and told Congress to stop plaguing the Philippines. In Manila last week Secretary Hurley recalled these Ad ministration efforts to protect the Philip pine market, declared: ''We've been some what confused amid these victories by the [Philippine] cry for independence. It seems hard to believe your people really want a tariff...
Chicago's 70 businessmen had picked out a monster adversary. Before they can claim success, they must get the War Department's barge line off the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers, stop Federal production of hydroelectric power at Muscle Shoals, turn its river-&-harbor digging over to private hands. Other governmental activities which, as "private business," the F. of A. B. would have to abolish: printing by one of the biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board...
...Havana Federal authorities clamped an iron lid on all news. To test the censorship, the New York Times telephoned U. S. bankers in Havana. Their call went through immediately, but every time the revolution was mentioned the connection was abruptly cut. But no censorship can stop Cubans from talking. Havana, seeing the battle of Gibara through the bottoms of innumerable beer glasses, received a far more colorful picture: not three dozen Cubans but a foreign legion of 500 Cubans, French, Germans, Japanese and U. S. citizens had landed under command of a mysterious U. S. Colonel.* The streets ran with...
...been replaced, she paused at San Juan to pick up a passenger. He was George Washington Grouse. Syracuse, N.Y. grocer, onetime passenger on the Graf Zeppelin. So eager was he to extend his accomplishments that he had waited two weeks for the arrival of the DO-X. After a stop at Cuba, the DO-X settled comfortably at Miami. Riding at anchor in Biscayne Bay, she was inspected by hordes of curious Miamians and by big brown pelicans which flapped overhead, stared down curiously at her twelve engines, set in tiers of six. After the stop at Miami...