Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alone, to "get things" for his wife. But he had not murdered the child; that was accidental, he said. Skeegie "must have smothered" while he was quieting him with handkerchiefs. ¶Chief Hoover had Prisoner McCall spirited to the 19th floor of Miami's skyscraper jail to prevent his lynching by an angry Miami...
...Milton Henry Kronenberg reminded his colleagues that women "are less resistant to dust, fumes and gases [than men], more susceptible to poisons, monotony and fatigue. . . . Married women are a particular problem. The stillbirth percentage is greater among factory workers. Infant mortality is higher. Abortions are higher." His recommendation to prevent all this: pre-employment physical examinations, followed by frequent periodic checkups, prohibiting females in employments involving exposure to lead and benzol; proper seating, with back rests; prohibiting women from working three months prior to and after childbirth; prohibiting night work; clean lunch rooms; quiet rest rooms; an educational program emphasizing...
...Mexico's Chavez stated the case with devastating simplicity: "As a practical proposal, shall we tie the hands of the Senator from Kentucky [Barkley] or any other Senator just because he happened to have recommended to WPA some honest Democratic friend who could do the job? Shall we prevent that friend from giving the Senator a lift when he needs...
...German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral for the new "Nazi martyrs." Thousands of Sudetens poured into the 17th-Century town on autos, bicycles and afoot for the ceremony. Leaning backward to prevent another "incident," the Czechoslovakian Government ordered troops in the vicinity confined to barracks, even as far as to allow Henlein's "illegal" white-shirted Storm Troopers to assume police duties...
...Most of them knew the real trouble: inferior pictures. Meanwhile the Government has cast a quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought to prevent the Neely bill, already passed by the Senate (prohibiting compulsory block booking and blind selling*), from reaching the floor of the House...