Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt has neither socialistic or fascist tendencies, he contributed but is trying to establish a planned economic system to prevent future disaster. This is the only hope left to capitalism...
...Congressmen kept their social calendars clear in case President Roosevelt should have important work for them to do on Feb. 4. Investors ceased buying and selling securities and the stock markets all but stood still, waiting for Feb. 4. The Securities Exchange Commission prepared to close all markets to prevent violent fluctuations of prices on Feb. 4. Attorney General Cummings, Secretary Morgenthau and President Roosevelt conferred earnestly and secretly, concerted what measures they should take to meet any contingencies that might arise on Feb. 4. Headlines blared the news of this tense situation-the news that...
...bite of a rat-flea. In human blood rat-typhus virus may be transformed, by ways which bacteriologists have not discovered, into human-typhus virus which in turn is transmitted by lice in a much more virulent form. Professor Zinsser two years ago invented a vaccine to prevent human typhus (TIME, March 13, 1933). Before that, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service invented a vaccine to protect humans against rat typhus (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). Though the mortality rate of typhus under normal circumstances is low, it does run as high...
...because of some horse play that occurred recently. Water was thrown along with the usual missiles. It is not our purpose to approve horse play (although if it is not a too frequent occurrence it is difficult to disapprove). But why the measure taken to prevent repetition? Will the fact that there is but one entrance where there were two, lessen exuberance in the night lunch? Was there something about the atmosphere of the O entry passage that incited deviltry? If so, why let men go out that way? They may start a riot in the court yard any night...
...Appropriations Committee provided, by a vote of 12 to 8, that the wages paid in the public works program should be "not less than the prevailing wage" of private industry in the locality. This provision goes directly contrary to the President's wishes, and removes an essential safeguard to prevent the huge expenditures of public money from interfering in the recovery of private business...