Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helpless!" exclaimed the Argentine Consul General at Berlin. "At the request of these young women's parents we have refused them visas to enter the Argentine. We have cabled our consuls at the ship's ports of call to stop them if possible. We have desired the police of Buenos Aires to prevent them from entering the city. What more...
...repeal of the Volstead Act and I am very much opposed to any such move. Despite all argument to the contrary,. I do not believe that the act is a failure. Its repeal would probably mean the traffic of light wines and beer, but this would not stop bootlegging. To prove this, allow me to point out the fact that in the short time granted to liquor houses to sell intoxicating liquors after the passage of the Volstead Act, eighty per cent of the liquor sold was of the stronger varieties. This fact speaks for itself...
...play second fiddle to his first, both at the second Hague Conference and at London (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). Briand, perhaps the greatest statesman and certainly the master politician of his time in France, would have been less than human had he not done something to stop the remark, often heard in Paris fortnight ago: "Tardieu has obliterated Briand...
...Cities will spread out more and more, working men can have more ground around their homes. Cities had better stop piling up their skyscrapers anyway. Everyone knows the interior of the earth is plastic. It's possible to get too much weight upon the surface. It's bound to make a dent...
...Brooklyn, Dora Milles danced on the third rail of an elevated railroad. When a policeman ordered her to stop, she beat him with a crowbar, ran down the street, cursed, tried to get away by climbing up a steel pillar...