Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communique by the United front declared violence was used to prevent anyone except Nazis from being present to welcome the arrivals in order not to let the Americans have any information except the propaganda disseminated by the Hitlerites...
Labor. The Man of the Year scrapped one Labor Board and founded another to enforce industrial-labor peace through collective bargaining. He labored diligently to prevent automobile, steel and cotton textile strikes, to settle bloody labor altercations in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Toledo. But strikes cost the lost of 20,888,000 man-days of work in the first nine months of 1934 compared to 9,456,000 man-days loss in the same period...
...base a decision. If the results clearly show reasonable grounds for doubt as to the validity of the election, another election would probably be a logical necessity. Not even the fact that the first results were regarded as official and were computed by appointed members of the Council, should prevent such a solution if new evidence is brought to light. If the premises on which a fact is based prove to be false, it is difficult to see how this fact can be used as a basis for future action...
Governor-elect Allred's program includes: laws to prevent lobbying; publicity on the sources of income of all State Legislators; new revenue without a sales...
Last week Harris' trial was scheduled to begin at Shelbyville. Circuit Judge Coleman sensed trouble. The sheriff requested from Governor Hill McAlister enough militiamen to prevent disorder. Accordingly, when Harris was brought into Shelbyville he was riding in an olive drab militia truck and men from three companies of the 117th Tennessee National Guard were riding along with...