Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign and native advisers of Generalissimo Chiang have agreed from the first with his policy of using the best of his troops (those drilled by German officers before these were recalled by Hitler) mainly to herd hundreds of thousands of Chinese provincial troops toward the Japanese and prevent those who wished to escape from escaping. After the Japanese occupied Shanghai they found many dead Chinese machine gunners handcuffed to their guns. (The Chinese explanation: "They handcuffed themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some...
...Franklin Roosevelt found this review "rather horrifying." Wall Street found rather horrifying what SEC did next. After SEC Chairman William O. Douglas and New York Stock Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. had conferred, SEC issued a further reform program agreed on by the Exchange to prevent any more Whitney scandals. Main points: 1) more frequent questionnaires and auditings of member firms; 2) prohibition of margin transactions and the maintenance of margin accounts by member firms and partners doing business with the public; 3) establishment of a 15-to-1 ratio instead of the present 20-to-1 between...
Thousands of shoe-shine urchins assail the unprotected individual in a wicked conspiracy to prevent him from going into Felix...
...goes on to say that the college should do all in its power to prevent students from assuming that they have the right to be riotous, and points out how the preparatory schools and the students themselves should shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the reputation of the university...
...rate, something must be done to prevent a recurrence of yesterday's horrible experience. When church services are suspended, men flee from their homes, the end of the world is predicted, and even college boys faint, then something must be done. We must not despair of reaching a constructive, workable solution; the people of Mars want peace...