Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stuttgart, Germany, Dr. George Fahrbach, president of the West German Association of Nature Lovers, demanded that a law be passed against picnickers who carry portable radios. His modest hope, said Fahrbach, is "to prevent songbirds from being drowned out by raucous radio jazz...
...Regal Shoe Co. (109 retail stores) and St. Louis' Brown Shoe Co. (TIME, June 1), which had been held up by the competing General Shoe Corp., will finally come off. Until recently, both Brown and General Shoe, two of the biggest U.S. shoemakers, held enough Regal stock to prevent either one from merging with the retail chain. But now Brown has made a deal with General that gives Brown 83% of the stock...
...Europe," Dulles concluded, "Soviet Russia holds its grip on Eastern Germany and upon Austria and maneuvers recklessly to prevent reconciliation between Germany and France. In Asia, the whole area from Japan and Korea to Southeast Asia is troubled by Communist efforts at penetration . . . There is only one defense-a defense compounded of eternal vigilance, sound policies and high courage. The U.S. is a member of a goodly company who have in the past stood together in the face of great peril and have overcome it. If we are true to that past, we can face the future with hope...
...will continue to do so." No matter how sincere Mr. Sears may be in his statement that he will go to Washington unprejudiced, his past actions make this unlikely. Only by getting rid of Sears and replacing him with someone less partial, can Mundt and his committee prevent what may well be one of the country's biggest whitewashes...
Neither did he fell that a United Nations security force was the answer. For at present, the political strains between the major powers would prevent this. If you get the necessary improvement in relations, then the need for such a police force would diminish, and the UN action should then be to press for world disarmament...