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Word: prevent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government cannot spend forever. To a press conference last week. Franklin Roosevelt gave his rebuttal to this argument. According to the President, previous spending programs had not "failed" but had rather been impeded by faulty business and economic methods. This time, said the President, means would be found to prevent unabsorbed inventories and unjustifiably high prices from, in effect, "running away with the ball." To find means to prevent such a mishap was the prime purpose of the antimonopoly investigation he had already recommended for Congressional consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 3019000000 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Secretary of Agriculture henry A. Wallace said today that a new battle to prevent the nation's judiciary from exercising power over administrative functions of government appears to have been opened as result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Kansas City stockyards case. Criticizing the stockyards decision--in which he charged that the Supreme Court reversed itself--and a proposal by a "prominent corporation attorney whose opinions in the post have carried great weight in the courts" that rate making powers of Federal regulatory agencies should be transferred by Congress to the courts, Wallace said, "One year...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...Views. Dr. Ruddock warns spyers into the abdomen that "the whole examination should be done with a fixed plan in mind, otherwise the wonderful natural pictures would tend to lead astray and thus prevent seeing the important points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peritoneoscopy | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike the jet of oil that plays on high-speed emery wheels to prevent tools losing their temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatherly Advice | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Envoy said that Italy's only interest in Spain was to prevent the spread of communism and that Italy had no desire to propagate Fascism in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suvich Praises University Degree and System of Administration by Overseers | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

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