Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs are concerned, they do not prevent destructive price cutting in the sale of commodities produced, any more than a fixed price of material or other element of cost would prevent...
...plan the work would not be reduced but it is possible that it would be changed so as to avoid the general examination. The committee, if it considered the application favorably, would recommend the special plan to the faculty, but it is expected that lack of data will prevent any such recommendation for a year...
...Congress can make a grant of authority to the President, we can find nothing that would prevent it from making it to any other authority it wishes. . . . The Congress has no power to abdicate its functions. . . . Section 9c is untenable under the Constitution. . . . The question is not the intrinsic importance of the subject matter, but the Constitutional processes of legislation which are essential functions of our form of government...
Exclaimed pious Catholic Smith: "The present penal law is not adequate to prevent public mingling and exhibitions of naked men and women. If such action is not an offense against public decency, this league will ask the Legislature to speedily remedy this defect in the law and make it so. It seems to us inconsistent to take a stand for decency on the screen and ignore this latest challenge to the enforcement of decency in reality, We cannot overlook indecency in the substance while condemning it in the shadow...
...perturb the rest of the nation. People know that only mosquitoes carry malaria infection from one person to another. Hence those who live in malarial districts shield themselves from mosquitoes by screening their windows, putting netting over their beds and dosing themselves with quinine. The more foresighted prevent the breeding of mosquitoes by draining swamps and oiling ponds where mosquitoes lay their eggs. Thus malaria in epidemic form has vanished from most of the U. S. and people have forgotten that, except perhaps for tuberculosis, no single disease is spread so widely throughout the world, killing and disabling so many...