Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forth the charges on which he expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California, Dr. Watts, 62, was noted for his competency in performing abortions, for the invention of numerous...
...comment to make on his end of the rug case but President Benjamin H. Roberts of Bird & Son declared: "The transaction involved in this case was made prior to the passage of the Robinson-Patman act. . . . Bird . . . has exercised great vigilance in endeavoring to observe this law and avoid any controversy. The issue in the case is of such a character as to probably clarify some doubtful provisions of this...
...avoid the possible misfortune of holding the bag if United Fruit routes its freight some other way, International Railways last week proposed to its stockholders an agreement with United Fruit. By its terms the Fruit Co. would "protect" International Railways against the construction of a new port either on the Atlantic or Pacific for 20 years. It would also provide additional facilities for the long banana haul across Guatemala by buying ten new locomotives and 300 banana cars according to the railroad's specifications. It would, furthermore, guarantee the railroad favorable terms on road ballast from mines...
...connected. Last week Veterans' Administrator Frank T. Hines gently cautioned the Legionaries at Cleveland:"It is my advice that in the consideration of future proposals for the enactment of additional legislation beneficial to veterans and their dependents, due recognition be given to existing benefits and care exercised to avoid the possibility of claims of injustice to that group of citizens not falling within the classification of war veterans and their dependents...
...introducing legislation to compensate these needy ones for the reduction he proposed to make in the value of the franc. Instead of adopting a violent attitude of cracking down, or one of arousing class against class, M. Auriol pledged: "We shall undertake to reduce inconveniences. The Government wishes to avoid social injustices. It desires to consolidate social peace...