Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been British policy from time immemorial, under Conservative, Liberal and Labor regimes, to avoid whenever possible the giving of a prior pledge which in certain circumstances would bring armed forces of the Empire automatically into play. While giving the House of Commons to understand last week that "in the case of France and Belgium" any German aggression will bring automatic British resistance to the aggressors, Neville Chamberlain was able to show that not even Anthony Eden advocated such an automatic arrangement in the case of Czechoslovakia...
...Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Securities & Exchange Commission rule that the issuer of stock may not avoid registering it with SEC merely by limiting the offering to company stockholders. The case grew out of an attempt by small, unimportant Sunbeam Gold Mines Co., a Nevada corporation with headquarters in Tacoma. to sell unregistered securities by mail to its stockholders. SEC was pleased because it was the first time the matter had been considered by a court of appeals...
...inside union just as precipitously as they joined. The accusations against the University constitute a strategic manoeuvre on the part of the A.F. of L. to force Harvard to end the irresponsible actions of some of the janitors. By confining its employees to their proper functions the University can avoid a Labor Board hearing which would prove annoying even though it revealed a group of minor employees out of hand and not an anti-Federation cabal in University Hall. Better control of the janitors would enable the University to make its oft-heralded claim of neutrality undoubted fact. The University...
...around. After Schuschnigg's broadcast "good-by," Seyss-Inquart kept going on the air by electrical transcription every half-hour or so, asking Austrians not to resist the invading German Army, saying the troops of the Führer would bring "happiness." All he had to do was avoid assassination by anti-Nazis before the arrival of the German Army and Adolf Hitler...
Desperately seeking to avoid an open fight on the convention floor, the Association's officials brought in to the final session a resolution ducking a commitment on specific Federal aid legislation until after study of the Reeves Committee's full report, not yet published. Unappeased, Professor Strayer strode to the auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend...