Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original reasons for the dietary laws were probably partly hygienic, but another end is to keep Jews as a group apart, prevent intermarriage with non-Jews. Today's kosher revival may have other origins. As young Mrs. Tresley explains it: "People are looking for something to believe in, something to hang on to. They don't want a wishy-washy life; they want something concrete...
...automakers, the recent cutbacks did not prevent them from turning out their 1,000,000th new motor vehicle of 1956 this week, only three days behind the 1955 pace. At Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert announced that in Chrysler's 1955 comeback net sales totaled $3.5 billion, 67% better than 1954, with earnings of $100 million, more than 400% better than 1954. Said Colbert: "1956 will be highly competitive, but we believe it will be a good market...
Died. Ann Cooper Hewitt Nicholson, 41, famed in the 1936 tabloids as the "sterilized heiress" after she charged that her mother and two San Francisco doctors had her sterilized without her knowledge to prevent her from bearing an heir to the family fortune (her great-grandfather: Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper, builder in 1830 of the first U.S. steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb); reportedly of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Monterrey, Mexico. Ann Cooper's sensational charges collapsed after the two doctors were acquitted and her mother died. Married six times, she never bore a child...
...president of the Young Republican Club, by allegedly using his influence for the second time to prevent a Republican from speaking before another College group, has gone just one step too far. When John R. Thomson first tried this stunt in the fall with Senator Bricker, it was possible to laugh the whole thing off as just another squabble between rival political clubs. But now that he seems to have pulled the same trick again, this time with Senator Bridges, it is clear that his actions are subverting the whole structure of undergraduate organizations and deserve immediate condemnation...
...protests to the Deans' Office. Since there is no formal prohibition in the "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations" against undermining another group's activities, it is likely that the Deans will take no official action. In that event, the Deans should certainly consider putting a provision into the "Rules" to prevent any further interclub tampering...