Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary told Tycoon Cadman that Gnat Lloyd George had declared in what he meant for a stinging attack on His Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop the advance of Mussolini's army, not by one hour! They will not save one Ethiopian life. Sanctions will not prevent guns and ammunition, or any war material or troops, from passing from Italy to reinforce the attack on Ethiopia. They are passing freely now. We are supplying Italy, through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in which we are, I think, the largest shareholders, now with the oil used...
...predict more and tenser crises in the future, the state department must school itself to true neutrality. This may be merely a preliminary episode; but if and when a new Serajevo develops, good advice will be fatal. Perhaps even the most careful diplomacy will not then be able to prevent our participation, but it is certain that pious wishes cannot...
...right direction. But Peace can only be waged through the strength of the state, through the governments that each country is cursed with in the next years. Not until government policies are found and accepted which will really keep us out of foreign wars, and also prevent such wars from beginning at all, will Peace be possible...
...Harvard Mobilization Committee" passes out a questionnaire to all the members of the audience. The card asked two questions, First, "To support by every means at our disposal genuine neutrality legislation to prevent entanglement of the U. S. in war--." To this, 290 answered "yes," eight, "no," and one, "conditionally...
...acts of reconstruction was the Croton Aqueduct, financed by the sale of lottery tickets. Even after the Aqueduct was finished, fire-fighting remained in the hands of private companies whose rivalries frequently threatened the city, since partisans of one company or another would seize the hydrant near a blaze, prevent its use until friends arrived. Such colorful items of dubious historical importance Henry Collins Brown includes in a volume on Victorian New York, succeeds in writing an amusing if somewhat musty book characterized by an old-fashioned respect for old-fashioned things...