Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lined up enough votes to pass it. First test of strength is expected when opponents try to refer the new bill to the Judiciary Committee where it would doubtless die. Second test of strength may come several weeks later when, after long but genuine debate, opponents may filibuster to prevent a vote...
...preached, however, no hellfire to inspire reformation, but dwelt on mitigating circumstances. One cause of the rising public debt was the sterilization of gold. The Federal Government has borrowed to buy no less than $1,050,000,000 in gold coming from abroad in order to prevent its exercising an inflationary effect on U. S. trade. Since the Government has this gold to sell when foreigners want it back, it has a billion-dollar asset. Subtracting this amount, the debt would stand at $35,350,000,000 or $324,000,000 more than he set last January...
...which he had closed Bethlehem's great Cambria plant in Johnstown. When it became apparent that the strike would not be settled by mediation. Governor Earle decided his enforced shut-down was no longer warranted. Having decided to permit the Bethlehem plant to reopen, having determined to prevent bloodshed by keeping State troopers on the scene, the Governor had only one course open: protect non-strikers from violence. Since law & order is seldom compatible with an effective strike, this "Labor Governor" too found himself in Labor's eyes a strikebreaker...
...annual summer epidemic of infantile paralysis was about to break upon the country last week, expert prophylactic teams deployed over the nation to prevent it by spraying the noses of children with zinc sulphate. This is a new but thoroughly tested method of preventing a disease which has crippled thousands of people of the U. S., including the President...
...bacteriologists are unable to see any germ positively responsible for smallpox, measles, infantile paralysis, the common cold. That invisible, specific contagia cause these diseases and many an-other is certain. Medical scientists call those submicroscopic substances viruses. But they do not know their true nature, and hence cannot scientifically prevent common colds or infantile paralysis...