Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morro Castle for a side show. Editors boomed out their alarm over the failure of men and machinery in a marine disaster that had taken 127 lives. President Roosevelt at Hyde Park talked hopefully of new fireproof construction laws at the next Congress which would prevent a repetition of such a holocaust. And in Manhattan the Department of Commerce's Steamboat Inspection service tried to get at the cause and circumstances of the wreck by a week-long series of public hearings. What a shocked public wanted to know and what Morro Castle survivors could tell...
...Russian convicts . . . are granted furloughs from time to time so that they can go home and see their families for a few days. . . . Why not laws in this country granting visits home-carefully checked, of course, by prison officials and local police to prevent escapes-as rewards for good behavior in prison...
...adopted a resolution under which British laborers may work on whatever munitions orders come the way of their employers. As a sop to pacifism the T. U. C. went on record as still favoring the League of Nations but definitely rejected the program of a general strike to prevent...
British Agent (First National) shows a pair of international agents up to their customary tricks, of spying on each other while they fall in love. Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) goes to Moscow to prevent Russia from signing a separate peace with Germany. Elena (Kay Francis) is Lenin's secretary, detailed to steal from Stephen the papers that will justify his execution. That no execution occurs will surprise few cinemaddicts...
...composer and his ebullient librettist, William Schwenck Gilbert, were the greatest burdens of Manager Carte's harassed life. He had brought them together four years before, had helped them make the biggest names in Victorian theatrical history. But all his vast reserves of tact and persuasion could not prevent the immensely successful but entirely antipodal collaborators from a ruinous breach over £140 worth of carpet eleven years later...