Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop the sale of electricity generated by the three TVA darns already built (including Wilson Dam started during the War and transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that the dams were designed primarily for flood-control, improvement of navigation, and national defense. The company attorneys maintained that they were designed primarily to generate and sell electric power and to drive their private competitors...
...been selling, put them on sale December 24, six days early. But by last week Mr. Fawcett and his True Confessions were a pretty disillusioned pair, and did not hesitate to show it in a startling newspaper advertisement run in six cities: "Don't let anything prevent you from buying your February True Confessions. . . . If anyone should try to persuade you for any reason not to purchase the February issue . . . call our representative...
...good cause for it to resent the intrusion of union leaders into what was seemingly none of their huskiness. But in its long history Harvard has had to distinguish between fads of the moment and trends that have come to stay. In 1776 a royal charter did not prevent the University from recognizing the American Revolution; today tradition has not kept it from hailing this new revolution...
Igiring the morning session, William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke on "The New Balance of Power." He stressed the belief that the nations who are at present supporting the "Status quo" should make sacrifices to Japan and the Rome-Berlin axis in order to prevent greater sacrifices later in the form...
...only intended to follow an old Latin American custom. Last week, informed that Government functionaries had ordered the deportation of 1,200 aliens who had entered Brazil as tourists and remained illegally, Dictator Vargas was shocked to learn that 900 of them were Jewish fugitives from Germany. To prevent the cry of "Nazi" being raised again, he hastily announced that all illegal immigrants of "good repute," Jews and non-Jews, would be allowed to stay...