Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Using "all facilities of the law," notably appeals to the Justice Department under the brand-new civil rights measure, to prevent interference with Negro registration and voting...
...within 48 hours Rome police did, but with tact befitting a nation anxious to remain the world's No. 1 tourist attraction. A "strict and precise" directive to police noted that under Article One of the Concordat between Italy and the Vatican state, "police are obliged to prevent and repress any abuse against morality. Those found in succinct clothing will be gently invited to leave and to dress themselves with greater decorum. In cases of resistance, they will be identified, reported to their respective embassies and prosecuted...
...owned Daily Graphic. Since Timothy was born in Sierra Leone, it was possible to expel him. The Minister of Information refused to specify the charges against the other two, Ashanti leaders of the Moslem Association Party, "since then they could challenge them." When they appealed to the courts to prevent their deportation, Nkrumah rushed through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) a special bill authorizing their immediate expulsion, even though they were citizens of Ghana. Within two hours they were aboard a plane for Nigeria...
...worried Gomulka dispatched a trade union chief, a vice-minister and a security general from Warsaw, called out the troops to keep order, pressed 750 trucks into action to provide transportation in Poland's second largest city (pop. 675,000), and banned the sale of vodka to prevent "real trouble...
...support under any farm commodity at whatever level he deems suitable, from 100% down. If Benson gets his way, the Government will no longer use supports to try to make farming profitable even for an inefficient farmer on an obsolete small farm. Supports would serve only to prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields to more profitable crops. In time-he hopes -supply would come into balance with demand, acreage controls would fade...