Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directors for false statements made on information received from, accountants and other experts; would limit the liability of underwriters to their share of issues underwritten; would shorten the period in which suits might be brought; would require proof that misleading statements had actually led to losses by investors; would prevent blackmail and nuisance suits by requiring litigants to post bond and pay costs if they lost. This amounted to an indication on behalf of the President that business was to get reasonable consideration, not merely to be the butt of the New Deal. ¶ "Deeply shocked and distressed" was President...
There remained the vast desert heft of the rest of Arabia. To prevent even this from attaining true unity, it was divided into various territories: the Kingdom of the Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better...
...handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly, but the mass of Rogue River small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks-the John Brown of the Depression." The climax occurred when the courthouse was sacked and ballot boxes stolen. Constable Prescott was sent to Banks's house to arrest him. Banks, who had loudly declared he would never be taken alive, took...
...necessity for attending code hearings now being held in Washington, will prevent Hiram Mann, argumentative campaigner for the underdog, from giving his talk on "Rugged Individualism" before the Liberal Club tomorrow night...
...with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses. Result was a large bill and one disabled jockey, the rider of the first terrified mount in spectacles. But to Colonel Bradley goes credit for introducing the fibre skullcap, first worn by his jockeys, now used by all to prevent serious head injuries in falls...