Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operations. Such operations had been approved and called a success by a meeting of farm-organization heads and agricultural legislators before Congress convened. Despite broad objections by Senator Borah, who wants the export debenture form of farm aid, and specific objections by Senators Black and Tydings, who tried to stop the Board's trading in commodity futures and on margin, the bill was rammed through before the holiday adjournment, went to the President...
...wasted so much time in billiard rooms from 1910 onwards that he became one of the world's great billiard players. Never sensational as an office boy, he is spectacular, Napoleonic with a cue. He takes daring chances and shoots so fast the balls hardly have time to stop rolling after one shot before he is set for the next. Last year he ran out a game in a world's championship in 32 minutes. Only one man in the world could hope to beat him and he was Ralph Greenleaf, impassive, shiny-haired defending champion. In Dwyer...
...latest attempt at revolution in Spain stopped as quickly as it had started, but bloodshed did not stop so soon. Next day two of the surviving rebel officers of the Jaca garrison were tried and shot by a firing squad. Four others were sentenced to life imprisonment...
...president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, arranged a $35,000,000 credit. On Oct. 24 a great panic swept the Exchange. Demand loans rose to 125%. J. P. Morgan and associates released $25,000,000 to assuage the situation. But not until Nov. 6 did bank runs stop...
...robes and pillows (some of lambskin) blended with upholstery. . . . Some sport phaetons have a duplicate dashboard for rear-seat riders. . . . Exhibitors were hopeful Hollywood cinemastars will approve of the lavishness of the models, to be displayed in Los Angeles the first week in February, the Salon's next stop before closing in San Francisco in February's third week. Conspicuously absent were the usual large number of foreign cars, Minerva and Isotta Fraschini being the only importations. Isotta bodies are made by famed Castagna of Milan. President of the U. S. Isotta sales company...