Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Government would lack power to operate. Therefore he felt obliged to postpone construction until Maine's Legislature should create a State Power Authority to build and operate the dam in the Federal Government's behalf. Only on Representative Brewster's assurance that he could & would prevent Republican suits and force necessary legislation through Maine's Legislature did Agent Corcoran approve PWA's decision to start work on the dam at once. Dr. Gruening assured him that Mr. Brewster's promises were ''one hundred percent" trustworthy...
...feel that we're on the defensive here at all," remarked Witness Gadsden. "We felt that this bill was destroying valuable property and did our best to prevent its passage, as we considered it our Constitutional right...
...years to get him to adhere to its Geneva Convention-i. e. to pledge that Ethiopians will not fight with unrestrained barbarity or fire on Red Cross units succoring the enemy. Last week the Emperor again indicated that neither his Govern-ment nor any authority whatsoever can hope to prevent Ethiopians from castrating wounded or captured Italians...
...Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches. In November 1931 The Churchman editorialized as follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn and numbers of other individuals and film-producers have been indicted in the Province of Ontario for conspiring to prevent competition in that portion of Canada. This is a criminal prosecution, the results of which can only be moral, as the gentlemen are not likely to place themselves within reach of provincial prisons...
...Almroth's wholesale prevention of disease contained an inherent danger to humanity which old Dr. Robert Koch, who discovered that germs actually cause disease and therefore that the destruction of germs would prevent disease, was quick to see. As far back as 1903, Koch warned doctors to beware typhoid carriers who show no signs of the disease, but carry in their gall bladders or intestines the germs with which others may be infected. Inoculation of such a carrier is wholly ineffective in destroying the typhoid bacillus which makes him a menace to society...