Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electric Bond & Share's 143,000 stockholders went a ten-page letter, concluding: "Action by Congress is imminent. . . . You may wish to telegraph or write to your Senators and Congressmen." In the same dignified vein Commonwealth & Southern wrote: "We have no objection to reasonable regulation which will prevent the recurrence of any alleged abuses of the past. . . . The present bill, however, is aimed to control and kill-not to regulate and cure. . . . The passage of this bill can only be prevented by an aroused and indignant public sentiment. We hope you, both as a security holder...
Perhaps this very straight-forward, sound shallowness will save them from the fate of many efforts at high-brow education over the radio. One cannot educate fifty million people in time to prevent the deluge. Even college graduates, moreover, have been known not to understand the complications of the present economic situation. So a league of crusaders, fighting the obvious demagoguery which now abounds, appealing to American horse-sense, may be just the right weapon in the word-fight of the depression...
Censorship found an adherent last night in the first meeting of the Inter-House Forum in Lowell House as Charles B. Feibleman '36, secretary of the Harvard Debating Council, declared that censorship would prevent quacks from selling tablets of tapeworms as reducing medicines...
...times when a larger number of students than usual are working to pay their college bills, it has been demonstrated that no legislation will prevent selling on college property. The authorities understand this fact and now plan to recognize it. This being the case, a thorough job should be done now, and a sound course chartered for future action. The undergraduate agencies, which heretofore have proved a failure in general should be eliminated. Solicitation should be placed on a fair and aboveboard basis through selection based on merit and financial need. And finally, official solicitors should be identified with unmistakable...
Secretary Ickes has backed down to public indignation, and one of the shadier events connected with the present administration ends. Now that justice has triumphed, there is no need to stress the hypocrisy of the excuses. To argue that the law in the future would prevent the ugly hand of patronage and political maneuvering with federal funds by local officials, as Secretary Ickes does, is laughable with James A. Farley in the cabinet...