Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom, individually, NRA promised most, were breaking ranks in wild disorder. Strikes, jurisdictional squabbles, bloody labor combats pocked the land. An opportunity to megaphone Labor back into line presented itself when the President went to dedicate a monument to the late great Samuel Gompers on Massachusetts Avenue, a block from the American Federation of Labor Building in Washington...
Francis Lane contributed the only genuine score of the day after Leon Francisco had blocked and recovered a Jayvee punt. The Jayvees had been given the ball on their own 25-yard line, and on their attempt to kick out of danger Francisco broke through to block the punt. With Lane, Dean, and Adzigian carrying the ball the Varsity advanced to the Jayvee 15-yard line in a series of short rushes. Then another first down brought the pig-skin to the three-yard line, and Lane went over for the tally...
...late Dwight Bancroft Heard brought the Republic (then the Republican, a "progressive independent newspaper") into affluence, willed a large block of stock to his favorite employe, Charles A. Stauffer who, with Mrs. Heard, later purchased the Gazette. Since Publisher Heard's death, the Republic has ceased to champion any cause except the 18th Amendment...
...determination of a nation to regain mastery over itself and to establish industrial freedom as a companion to our political freedom." Such shadow-boxing was only a foretaste of the A. F. of L. convention at which President Green was primed to denounce all those who dared to block Labor's advance as enemies of NRA, traitors to the U. S. Recovery Strikes- More serious than word warfare was the spread of A. F. of L.-sponsored strikes throughout the land. Completely forgotten was last summer's truce to which Mr. Green himself subscribed. These strikes were undertaken...
...sold and speculators were reselling them to disappointed latecomers at a 20% premium. Drawings to determine winners in the first batch will be held on Armistice Day in Paris' lofty, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadero facing the Eiffel Tower. Every holder of a block of ten tickets will receive a 20% rebate if none wins a prize-this feature especially appealing to thrifty Frenchmen. Waiters, taxi-drivers and petty shopkeepers to whom even 500 francs looks big, were asking each other excitedly last week, "What would you do with 5,000,000 francs?" That being the amount...