Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Hodges, 59, a Virginia sharecropper's son who became a vice president of Marshall Field & Co. before turning to politics, moved hard and fast to prevent trouble. Speaking over a statewide network of radio and television stations last week, Hodges expressed his personal feelings: "I think the U.S. Supreme Court made a tragic mistake." But, he said, "we are forced to recognize that that court has the final word. [We] do not like lawlessness." Luther Hodges meant to use the power of the state to uphold, not upset, the law of the land...
...executive is not only unauthorized to prevent the execution of a decree sanctioned by the Supreme Court of the U.S., but is expressly enjoined, by statute, to carry into effect any such decree, where opposition may be made...
Stumbling Ahead. At the constituent assembly the granite will was none too evident. Instead of settling down to work on the constitutional reforms-mostly curbs on the executive power, designed to prevent another Perón-the delegates erupted in squabbles. The Intransigent Radicals, hot after the Peronista vote, provided a casebook example of the demagoguery that Aramburu deplored by denouncing the assembly's legality. The chairman clamped down on the tirade, and the 77-man Intransigent bloc stormed out of the hall. And the 75-man bloc of the People's Radicals were too split among themselves...
...town blossomed with posters saying: "Honor-Pride-Save the Whites!" and "Save Your Kids! Prevent Race Riots, Murder, Dynamitings and Hangings!" Assistant School Superintendent W. H. Oliver called for police protection after a paper fireball was thrown, burning, on his front porch. Having passed safely through registration day, Nashville is now braced for anything. Says Superintendent Bass: "Our board members are shaking in their boots. There's all sorts of submerged opposition to this." Added a Negro lawyer: "With a lunatic like Kasper around, anything can happen...
While the headliners each sang their own tunes, Florida's Smathers introduced an amendment to the Federal Communications Act to prevent broadcasters from owning stock in BMI or in publishing and record companies. Said he: "Had these [monopolistic] practices been in existence in prior years, many great songs such as The Missouri Waltz might not have been available for the enjoyment of the public...