Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference next morning, the President put on a vigorous act, a stern lecture on the need for judiciary reform. He was severe with the Supreme Court. It had left important New Deal cases undecided. It had refused to prevent the suit of 19 utilities against TVA from going to trial in the lower courts. It had granted appeals on two suits against PWA power loans to municipalities, thereby keeping $50,000,000 of such loans tied up. It had refused the Government's request to allow Electric Bond & Share's challenge of the Public Utility Holding Company...
...prevent supplies entering the plants by rail, strikers put ties on the tracks, threatened the train crews until they retired "in fear of bodily injury." This brought the railroads into the picture: Pennsylvania, B & O and Erie. They appealed to the courts for an injunction to prevent strikers from blocking their tracks. S.W.O.C. counsel replied that the railroads were not acting on their own behalf but merely as a catspaw for the steel companies...
...their way. For Green came President William Hutcheson of the Carpenters Union. Subsidiary of the Carpenters in the Northwest is the Federation of Woodworkers, Lumberjacks and Sawmill Workers, 130,000 strong. Always radical, the Woodworkers have definite leanings to the C. I. 0. and Bill Hutcheson hoped to prevent their defection. For Lewis came his lieutenant John Brophy "to explain" C. I. O. not only to the Woodworkers but to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (which includes not only longshoremen but sailors, engineers, radiomen, cooks, firemen -40,000 strong". In both meetings, held simultaneously in different rooms of Portland...
...reduced taxes, for the benefit not of ordinary employes but of a few high officers of a company. To these dodges Mr. Morgenthau added three others "which the law itself permits": 1) claims for depletion by oil and mining companies, which are allowed as a deduction from income and prevent the Treasury from collecting up to $75,000,000 a year; 2) dividing a husband's income with his wife in tax returns from the eight States which have community property laws,† thereby reducing individual surtaxes; 3) the flat tax of 10% on U. S. income of nonresident...
Night before the pamphlet was to be read, Munich's most popular Catholic priest, Father Rupert Mayr, who lost both legs fighting for the Fatherland and has fearlessly lashed Nazi propaganda, was arrested. This did not prevent young Catholics all over Germany from flocking to their churches on "Sunday of Youth." Hitler Youth Groups were at the churches to meet them, to jeer and catcall from outside while the Catholic pamphlet was being read from the pulpits. The pamphlet made no attempt to deny the charges of immorality-"Weakness and sin have always walked alongside the Church...