Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this country, long distances prevent a pursuit of the first custom mentioned; tradition does not support, and practical politics does not permit, the election of students to Congress. The use of petition remains. And if Hearst-harried haters of internationalism may deluge the Senate with anti-World Court telegrams with such decisive effect, I submit to the learned editors of the CRIMSON that, under current circumstances, it is most poignantly the "province of students to involve themselves in governmental affairs...
...evening Franklin Roosevelt picked up his telephone and made one of the most significant telephone calls that he had made since taking office. He was calling to smooth the feathers of a very ruffled Democrat, asking the aid of Carter Glass to prevent the liberals of the Senate from forcing the New Deal considerably farther Left than Franklin Roosevelt was ready to go. When the President sent his $4,000,000.000 work relief bill to Congress he did not consult Senator Glass. When it got to the Senate Appropriations Committee, he did not confer with Chairman Glass. Instead he kept...
...prevent these factions from tearing the bill to pieces by pulling in opposite directions, the Administration tried to push the bill through in a hurry. For that reason an $880,000,000 deficiency appropriation for FERA was added to the $4,000,000,000 with the warning that if the bill was not passed by Feb. 10, FERA would be out of funds, all relief would end. Opponents of the bill obligingly offered to separate and pass the deficiency appropriation. The Administration declined. But the Committee was not to be hurried. Last week Feb. 10 came and went, and relief...
Powermen feared the worst and they got it. No less than ten holding company heads sprang instanter to the industry's defense in a joint statement: "We do not believe that it is necessary to destroy these companies in order to prevent a recurrence of abuses, many of which have already been corrected. . . . We stand ready to cooperate...
...February and ending April 12th; (2) that each Freshman shall procure slips at the Union for the House he wishes to visit with the understanding that it will be necessary to limit the number of slips given out for any one meal at any one House so as to prevent overcrowding; (3) that the Houses shall inform the Union of any special functions, House dinners, etc., to which the privilege will not apply; and (4) that Freshmen are urged but not required to visit the Houses in company with upperclassmen...