Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...framed aj a Constitutional Amendment, it would need a two-thirds majority in both houses. Chance that the Ludlow Resolution would ever get much closer to a vote than it was last week was minimized when Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he would exert all his influence to prevent its consideration...
...Worthington Scranton of Scranton, whose patrician features and baronial name do not prevent her from wearing all the fantastic headgear which fashion prescribes, is in many ways symbolic of the modern Republican Party. As National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania, Mrs. Scranton last year not only listened religiously to Alf Landon on the radio, but welcomed him back to the State of his birth. Last week, along with 19 other members of the National Committee's executive committee, a very serious Mrs. Worthington Scranton was to be seen daily entering & leaving a conference room on the first floor of St. Louis...
Dissension. That even these cautious tactics could not prevent dissension was the best evidence that Republicanism, muddled and frustrated as it may be, still has plenty of political vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from...
...President promised among other things to bring about a planned recovery, to reduce unemployment, to look after the interests of the small man, to stabilize commodity prices, and to prevent violent market fluctuations. Recovery has now been checked, the volume of unemployment is rising sharply, thousands of small investors have been impoverished, there has been a steep fall in the commodity-price level, and the fluctuations of the market during the past three months . . . have been more violent than at any time since...
Nevertheless, all these forces for health failed last fortnight to prevent an epidemic of virulent diarrhea from striking into the nursery of Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, an institution with no isolated facilities for maternity care, operated by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. It was the nation's most serious outbreak of this disease. By last week eleven of 19 affected children were dead, only two definitely out of danger...