Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution for joint Congressional investigation of wealthy taxpayers as amended by the House to prevent Treasury officials from carrying on a public scandal-hunt in the absence of Congressmen (TIME, June...
...read: "Is there not a breath of humanity left in the world's conscience to prevent the accomplishment of the most frightful injustice known to the world...
...longtime producer of industrial shorts for advertising, Producer Castle last made major cinema news in 1931 when he successfully campaigned to prevent major companies from releasing advertising shorts as pure entertainment. Most major cinema producers, well aware of the possibilities of the small projector market, are wary of it as competition with theatres. News Parade, edited, cut and titled by Producer Castle, consists of reductions of full-sized newsreels which Producer Castle acquires in return for royalties on News Parade sales, after exhibition in theatres has made them worthless to their makers. Precisely what companies give News Parade its material...
...rubber ruff hugs his neck, and it was a long time before he learned to ignore the sensation of being throttled 21,600 times a day. Another annoyance to be ignored was the incessant throbbing of the pump. But he quickly learned to control his tongue and prevent its being sucked into his throat like a cork at every inhalation...
...will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition of Coughlinism. Archbishop Mooney is modest, good-natured, affable in dealing with churchmen of other faiths. In Rochester he drives his own automobile, plays golf in the 80s, stays away from parties. Catholic eulogizers speak of his "short, concise sermons," but Rochesterites long ago be came used...