Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it effective and economical. The people have a right to actual examples of public ownership to supply a basis for coming to long-time conclusions on the subject. We should not be forced to decide by abstract theory. I disagree both with private utility men who would prevent any trial of public ownership on a large scale, and with public ownership advocates who would take a course the success of which would bring the utilities to unconditional surrender...
...voted not to evacuate the Flint plants because General Motors had "double-crossed" the union in promising to bargain with non-union workers. To this were added other allegations of bad faith: that the company planned to reopen the evacuated Cadillac plant in De troit, to prevent picketing of its evacuated plant at Anderson, Ind. Mr. Martin telegraphed Senator La Follette demanding a Senate investigation of the Flint Alliance...
...wife Ruth (Erin O'Brien-Moore) when he learns that the foreman's job he was counting on has gone to a young Pole. His disappointment makes him susceptible when invited to join a secret organization whose purpose is to prevent foreigners from taking jobs away from U. S. workmen. Ensuing developments, derived from the activities of Detroit's "Black Legion," make the pic ture one of the most effective in Warner Brothers series of industrial problem plays...
Faculty members disagree about the knowledge-vending emporiums, whose annual intake comes to $200,000. Dean Alfred C. Hanford leads a bloc which would like to prevent students from enrolling in them. Others--like Professor Roger B. Merriman--take a more liberal view, and suggests their students using them for purposes of reviewing the work of an entire course...
Because of the almost complete dependence of the lecturer on slides, mechanical difficulties may and do affect the amount of work accomplished. In order to prevent such disturbances in the future, a check should be made before each class. The equipment should be kept in perfect condition, and only the most efficient assistants should be employed...