Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing well that the poll tax is the chief device whereby Southern Democrats prevent Negroes from voting, the wariest politician in the U.S. quickly added that in condemning the poll tax he was not talking about Negroes. They, he said, were a problem to be handled separately. At this remark, political ears pricked. It was the first time Mr. Roosevelt had publicly mentioned one of the most delicate aspects of his new Liberal party. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass declared that Franklin Roosevelt had exhibited "an absolutely superficial knowledge of the matter...
...retired to a siding, the Association of Distributors offered the Warehousemen's Union a "master contract" to end the lockout. Main feature of the contract, designed to replace the union's existing or expired contracts with individual warehousemen: compulsory arbitration, no strikes or lockouts until 1940, to prevent quickie stoppages during the Golden Gate International Exposition next year. This offer the warehousemen refused, on the ground that having all the contracts expire at once would precipitate another general crisis...
...hidden in nearby groves. Breakfast is at 8:15. Box lunches are delivered to the studios. Until four, no visiting is permitted, and then only with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen conversation, prevent the formation of cliques. The food is famed. Coffee is served in the main parlor, where guests are expected to be interesting but not read manuscripts. Around ten, when Mrs. Ames retires, guests are expected to go to bed, too, not slip off to Saratoga for a beer. In this...
...This completion offers Freshmen not only an excellent way of meeting a great number of their classmates, as well as men in other classes, but afford them a chance to get acclimated in Harvard in short order. It provides, moreover, an influence on first-year men which tends to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the complete freedom of college life...
...plan that cuts obligatory interest severely and to a basis that in the past would . . . have been adequately covered. But the plan now approved is for the future. ... A new structure should protect creditor claims to earnings as far as is practicable. ... It should be calculated also to prevent the necessity of future reorganization...