Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish retailers 30,000 strong closed their delicatessen, kosher butcher shops and pharmacies in Jewish sections of Metropolitan New York for 60 minutes last week. Some of them hung out signs: PEOPLE OF AMERICA, STOP HITLER NOW, AND SAVE CIVILIZATION! Bigger retail establishments like R. H. Macy & Co. made formal denials of rumors that they would fire their Aryan employes, replace them with refugee Jews...
...damage, on the movie industry was that three studios had to stop shooting for one afternoon-one because some hired elephants got restless, two because smoke dimmed...
...Harvard Refugee Committee launched its drive yesterday to raise $10,000 mid the acclamations of students and outside dignitaries alike. It is hoped that this will be the first stop in enlisting the support of colleges throughout America in the Refugee drive...
Looking at the issues in the French general strike, which according to most reports failed in its attempt to stop all economic activity for one day, is like facing mud puddles. It is difficult to determine whether the opposition of the "Confederation Generale du Travail" to Premier Daladier's thirty-two decree daws, one of which suspended the forty-hour week, represents' a struggle between labor and capital or between anarchy and order. Or, whether the conflict is one between communism and fascism, or communism and democracy. The French themselves are as much confused as observers here and abroad; every...
...Vagabond sloshed home and he couldn't stop thinking about Mr. Frost. He was cavalier. He wasn't scholarly. He was almost home-spun. He was definitely provincial, definitely New England. Yet any man with that twinkle in his eye, with that simplicity that couldn't be dismissed must be eminently wise. The Vagabond wishes he could hear Mr. Frost more often. Every time he sees the birch trees he will think of that lecture and the next time the poet of New England comes to Harvard the Vagabond will be there, sitting in the front...