Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week few citizens beside the like of Robert Cuse, a naturalized Latvian of Jersey City, N. J., realized that there was no U. S. law to prevent them from selling things to help the Spanish kill each other...
...particularly dead loss. Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been definitely ascertained that Argentina will NOT be a party to that clause of a neutrality treaty adopted by the other American states which would operate, in case of a European war, to prevent her from selling her beef, horses, sheep and foodstuffs to the belligerents. Since Argentina is going to sell, all American countries are very likely to do the same, and this week premiers, presidents and dictators may smoke that in their peace pipes...
Finally Prince Consort Bernhard and Crown Princess Juliana take up their residence in Soestdyk, the castle left by her late reigning grandmother Queen Emma. Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina has intervened to prevent enthusiastic subjects from presenting a 300-ft. seagoing yacht, but a 100-ft. yacht has been given as a wedding present, just right for safely cruising Dutch canals...
...names of eight greater and lesser U. S. artists: Alfred Stieglitz, Alexander Brook, William Gropper, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Sloan. Ever since copyright laws have been in existence it has been possible for artists or owners of pictures to copyright them, prevent their reproduction without due authority. Explaining last week's manifesto, grey-haired Spokesman John Sloan, famed painter of New York street scenes, longtime president of the Society of Independent Artists, pointed out that what he and his distinguished friends and their recently engaged legal counsel were aiming...
...agreed on a contract, arranged to split profits from the "Newspaper of the Air." Listeners liked the newscasting, the "fighting" editorials which the radio station directed against the Bellingham Herald and other political foes. First trouble for KVOS came when the A. P. asked for an injunction to prevent the broadcasters from appropriating its news as it appeared in member papers. Financial support came, to KVOS from the National Association of Broadcasters, representatives of a notoriously timid yet greedy industry, glad to find an obscure test case which might entitle them to millions of dollars worth of free news. First...