Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vice-crusader. George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established it in Manhattan in 1845 "to assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of [felons'] names, aliases and persons. . . ." The exposures started with policy gambling (now a thriving operation in most large Negro centres) and stopped at nothing. Violence and threats of libel alike failed to stop the editors. The Gazette dealt in harsh detail with one John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, whom it claimed to have found intoxicated in a Manhattan brothel. It pilloried a Mrs. Ann Lohman-"Mme. Restell, the female abortionist...
...Arbon Mich., Nov. 4--Drilling with more attention to the finer details the Wolverine Varsity yesterday went through some of the most intense practice of the season in an attempt to perfect a defense that will stop the Crimson backs. Coach Kipke worked with two complete teams and seems to have developed a system to use against the Harvard aerial attack. The entire squad was in uniform and indications that they are in shape were in evidence when all of the men who have been on the cripple list appeared in the scrimmage against the Freshmen. Coach Fisher's yearlings...
...Germans. That the people should thus behave was to be expected, but at the fortress in which President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...
...serve box luncheons, or to invite passengers to step to the door of the pilot's compartment and hear weather reports through a radio headset. The plane passes near National Cash Register's factory at Dayton, on to Indianapolis' new municipal airport for another ten-minute stop. Beyond St. Louis no passenger will fail to notice the widening checkerboard of section line's. Thinning population is plainly charted by farm boundaries flung to the horizon...
...opened by Southern Air Fast Express, operating company formed by American Airways (of Aviation Corp.), joint bidder with Southwest Air Fast Express for the mail contract (TIME, Oct. 6). President Coburn and Vice Chairman Grosvenor of Avco made the inaugural trip. Passengers leave either terminus at early morning, may stop overnight at Fort Worth or Dallas (about 16 hr.) and reach the opposite end next evening. (Fare, $147.15). Service will be completed between New York and Atlanta about Dec. 1 when Eastern Air Transport, mail operators, begin carrying passengers...