Word: suspending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President is to have the right to suspend building or alterations in the event of a new disarmament conference. The improvements on the six battleships are allowable under the present Limitation of Armaments Treaty. As for the scout cruisers and gunboats, they are also within treaty rights as no limitation is placed on .ships of not more than 10,000 tons...
...Yale Daily News, undergraduate newspaper, protested that "the whole matter was brought about in rather underhanded fashion and that the college faculty was purposely disregarded throughout." A petition signed by 480 students was handed to Dr. James Rowland Angell, President, adjuring him to "take immediate action to suspend work on the foundation . . . until undergraduate opinion shall have been consulted." Said Lewis S. Welch, onetime editor of the Alumni Weekly: "There is to be set up, without talking it over with the family, a new 'Old Home,' an imitation of the place where Yale's forbears lived. It will make Connecticut...
...Communists, as lusty-voiced as ever, tried to delay debate until after the Senate had passed the Amnesty Bill (TIME, July 21). Deputy Andre Marty, the Black Sea Mutineer, called the Government: "Assassins, traitors, politicians without morals and without scruples." President of the Chamber, Paul Painlevé, had to suspend the session. Further disorders occurred after the Chamber had reassembled and closure was finally moved by 385 to 26 votes...
...Conservatives, with iron resolution, adopted the slogan "Menocal or Death"-but failed to specify who was to die. Presumably it was their enemies, since they were reported to have arranged to keep all delegates within range of "sawed-off shotguns" in case any of the latter should try to suspend the Convention...
Thereupon, the soldiers unslung their rifles and fired indiscriminately. Indescribable panic followed, many people were found to have been seriously wounded, one was dead. The newspapers were thus forced to suspend publication...