Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect Chancellor Schuschnigg's visit to Paris, whence he would next visit London, was a sort of vital symbol last week of the Great Powers' will to prevent Austria from being absorbed into Nazidom. This will was formally recorded at Rome in the pact of Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval (TIME, Jan. 14), then re-recorded at London in the Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France...
...State legislatures want ultimately to defeat the Communists they must not be afraid to vie with them in convincing their constituents which system of government is most beneficial to their interests and those of society generally. The suppression of an organization by law can not prevent the dissemination of ideas, especially when those ideas have a strong appeal to many exploited individuals...
...human oddities (midgets, bearded lady, fat woman, giant, snake-charmer) who now make a better living by impersonating freaks in pictures than they used to make by really traveling with the circus. The plot concerns the efforts of a widowed puppeteer (Tracy) and his male assistant (Jimmy Durante) to prevent welfare agencies from taking possession of his child; the efforts of his female assistant (Sally Eilers) to make him see that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage. The inevitable riot scene, in which the carnival personnel squeals "Hey Rube!" and Poochy is left in a tent which...
...rational thinking, devoid of the supercharged emotionalism and propaganda that has characterized the past few years. On Friday, Judge Grubb, of the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, termed the sale of power by the T.V.A. illegal. Moreover, he granted a permanent injunction which will prevent 14 cities from borrowing P.W.A. funds "to provide a market for T.V.A. power...
...said the prevailing wage amendment to the Works Relief Bill was adopted last week to prevent lowering "the American working man to the status of the Mexican peons...