Word: prevent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rail to Johnstown, in pivotal Pennsylvania, where he motored for two hours through last spring's flood regions, was cheered everywhere by great throngs, declared, "The Federal Government, so long as I have anything to do with it, is going to cooperate ... in taking every possible measure to prevent floods in the future...
...heart ailment treated by a specialist. Meanwhile he was, as usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple, had never before run for office could not keep the Pendergastians from an overwhelming victory...
...that down Geoffrey," he added, turning to Geoffrey Parsons Jr., correspondent of the Republican Boston Globe, son of Chief Editorial Writer Geoffrey Parsons of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. Along the route the President complained that Vermont and New Hampshire had not done the upstream reforestation to prevent floods which they should have, that only 51% of Vermont's and 35% of New Hampshire's PWA labor had been taken from the relief rolls. He declared the Federal Government would hereafter be "hardboiled"' in advancing its 45% of the cost of PWA projects...
...sold his process to Yoder Co. of Cleveland for an unannounced sum. Then Bridgeport (Conn.) Brass Co. raised indignant howls, claimed that the inventor had verbally contracted to sell the process to it for $600,000. In Cleveland last week Bridgeport Brass Co. was suing in Federal court to prevent the deal with Yoder Co. from bearing fruit...
...thing like that I'd be tickled skinny, but my husband is very modest. . . . We couldn't keep the children out of our bedroom all night they were so excited. I had decided to tell them nothing about what their father did because I thought it would prevent their sleeping. But my husband's sister came and told them all about it. They got highly excited. The eldest, Audrey, who is 11, exclaimed, 'How wonderful...