Word: stops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leadership of France's Confédération Générale du Travail, have made Communist Co-Secretary General Benoit Frachon the real boss over the Confédération's six million workers. French Communists, through unions directly controlled by Communists, can stop key industries, including metals, light & power, railroads, building, mines, chemicals, textiles, food processing, communications. The constant threat of a general strike permits the Communists (27% of the popular vote) to keep any French Government from adopting foreign or domestic policies contrary to the essential interests of the party-or Russia...
...over, the peace treaties have not been signed. Panama's President Enrique A. Jiménez has indicated that he understands the problem. But some Panamanians are piqued by the fact that at Rio Hato (the biggest field, which lies astride the lonely transisthmian highway), they have to stop their cars whenever a U.S. plane buzzes in or out, and wait for U.S. MPs to give them permission to drive...
...guessed where part of the trouble lay: his name-in-lights stable "have to earn livings, and they've got to sell to other markets too." To his stockholder-contributors went an urgent "special request": "We need masterfully written short stories, and articles, that will make the nation stop to read. You can insure your investment by routing '47-ward the two finest pieces you produce in the next twelve months...
...football team can be expected to cut off its source of life; no tennis tournament entrepreneur is going to eliminate his well-padded list of expense accounts. The thin line that divides "amateur" from "professional" is becoming ever thinner, and no amount of high-flown oratory is going to stop it from doing so. Since any kind of a backward step is very unlikely, about all we can hope for is that professionalism may not go much further forward...
...brief sojourn at the University of Chicago in 1909 was the last stop on Professor Pound's way to Harvard. Dean Thayer invited him to become Story Professor of Law and 1913 found him Carter Professor of Jurisprudence. At Dean Thayer's death in 1916, Professor Pound became Dean of the Law School, the first non-graduate of the School to hold that post...