Word: averted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to bow our heads after the election; bow in shame that the intelligent, patriotic people of this State did not have the sense or the courage to avert this disgrace? Shall Kansans be greeted by a gibing baaa, the cry of the billy goat, when they walk the streets of other States...
...school teachers, notably, had been unpaid save for two weeks' salary in the past six months. Never highly paid, many a teacher had nonetheless helped feed destitute children during the year. Closely in touch with the ranks of the needy, the teachers feared further retrenchment. How would they avert...
Last April a Democratic group designated by the National Committee met in Chicago to arrange for the June convention. At the meeting Roosevelt men were about evenly arrayed against anti-Roosevelt men. To avert a schism a compromise was effected whereby Kentucky's Senator Barkley, a Roosevelt supporter, was "recommended" to the convention as temporary chairman and keynoter. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee at Washington headquarters, was "commended" as permanent chairman. A Raskobite, Mr. Shouse has spent the last three years keeping his party alive and active in opposing the Hoover Administration. To him more than...
...Civil War and its bitterness are too long past and Southern people have learned the greatness of Mr. Lincoln, who tried so hard to avert that war. We have also learned much more about our neighbors in the North, and that quality in men and women is not restricted to any section of the country. We respect and love our real worthwhile Northern neighbors quite as much as they could wish. We are too often misunderstood I think, and when ignorance and prejudice occasionally seem to be still harbored by all sections of our country, I feel that...
...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...