Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally AAA approved a resolution providing $150,000 for a Federal Trade Commission investigation of processors' profits -a scandal hunt which might do much to discourage suits to prevent the collection of processing taxes...
...broken the market for the lira, forced its devaluation. This could be avoided by paying out half a billion in gold from the Bank of Italy's reserves of five and a half billions. Though a desperate expedient, such withdrawal of gold from behind the lira would, paradoxically, prevent its fall on foreign exchange, because the world markets would not be glutted with lira offerings. With regret...
With the exception of the Piggly Wiggly corner in 1923, the Stutz coup was the last big corner ever executed on the New York Stock Exchange. In a pious moment a few years later the Governors took steps to prevent them by rules & regulations. Another result of that squeeze was to dump considerable amounts of Stutz stock in the hands of the good friends of Allan Ryan's father-principally Charles Michael Schwab. Except for one short interlude, Bethlehem Steel's aging chairman has had Stutz ever since...
Last March, the quiet, grey-haired widower, father of eight grown children, did not allow his 67 years to prevent him from taking a second wife, Elizabeth M. Smith of Cleveland and Manhattan. And last week William Harahan found himself at the beginning of a second career when, following the death of John Joseph Bernet last month (TIME, July 15), he was returned to his old roost as president...
...telegrams for nothing. Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Vanderbilt gave him passes on their husbands' railroads. He advised women on their clothes and social affairs and husbands did not distrust him. Among multimillionaires who, as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr says, "might hold up the market but could not prevent conversation slumping heavily at their own tables." Lehr's levity and social resourcefulness made him a valued companion, although malicious society writers sometimes made fun of his spectacular dress, his talent for taking feminine roles at amateur theatricals...