Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illinois' No. 1 Democrat, forceful Governor Henry Horner, has been four months sunning his bald head and nursing his ailing heart in Miami, where his entourage last week denied persistent reports that his health might prevent his return to duty. Henry Horner is Illinois' No. 1 Democrat by virtue of the drubbing he gave his erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances...
Last week the Latvian Ministry of Public Welfare set out to prevent the spread of tuberculosis by warning the population with posters: DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE KISSED; DO NOT KISS AN OTHER'S HAND. Officials entrusted with putting the admonition into effect had a job on their hands. Although the incidence of Latvian tuberculosis is high (tubercular death rate in the capital, Riga, is 120 per 100,000), the incidence of Latvian hand-kissing is much higher...
...July morning in 1885, feverish little Joseph Meister was dragged by his frantic mother through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who, according to rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...
Whether or not the president's relief program has benefited the nation only history can say, But to prevent the impoverishment and demoralization of more than a million Americans, the immediate endorsement of President Roosevelt's recommendation is essential. As in the case of Lincoln's Civil War policy, the emergency relief program for 1939 will be gravely imperiled by any interference within the fiscal year. If it so desires, Congress will have ample time to "swap horses" when it gets to the other side of the stream...
...melodramatic and uninspired. Fleeing to Arizona to escape conviction for a murder of which he is innocent, the fighter meets the Dead End Kids, May Robson, and a blonde, who manage to revive the clean American spirit in him. Mr. Garfield's acting and the Kids' wisecracking do not prevent the picture from being overlong and overdone...