Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Businessmen can be pretty generally relied on to oppose any measure for social betterment-he remembered how some years ago after a fire in a New York factory, businessmen had lobbied in the New York legislature to prevent passage of a factory inspection...
...still the storm of abuse. Henry Ingraham Harriman, outgoing president, keynoted moderately: "The chief objection is not to the basic principles underlying many of these measures but to the extremes to which they are carried." Secretary of Commerce Roper rode a herd on the impatient Chambermen, trying to prevent a stampede...
...Dining Halls, Dr. Anderson used as evidence the fact that the cases did not occur in an explosive epidemic, but on the contrary, progressed from one building to another over a period of several days. Apparently there is known no specific action which can be taken to limit or prevent the spread of such recurrences...
Pointing out that politics have always governed the acquisition and tenure of office, Mr. Douglas said that under a totalitarian State, even if the form of democracy were retained, it would be impossible to prevent politics from creeping into the planning--this would either eventuate, or a bureaucracy must be created, so powerful as to entail the abandonment of "all of our cherished lib- selections, a brief violin recital by Malcolm H. Holmes, a quartet singing popular undergraduate music, an exhibition of monocycle riding, and winding up by more selections by the Glee Club with the whole crowd finally joining...
...little too much when Mr. Rea paints a lurid picture of the nations of the world egging on the Soviet Union while poor little Japan is fighting a life and death struggle. Even more incredible is the assertion that Japan is the only force which can prevent the World Revolution...