Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporter left after receiving complete assurance from Miss Van Gordon that her slight indisposition would not prevent her from singing tonight...
...would have been willing to open their books to a committee and to agree to a revision of wages, including a provision that wages would not be lowered at present; they would probably have made these concessions provided they could have secured a satisfactory long-term agreement which would prevent further strikes. But the definition of a "satisfactory long-term agreement" was the sticking point. The operators wanted something that would last perhaps ten years, and realizing the futility of trying to fix wages for so long a period, felt it necessary to include a provision for periodic adjustment...
...wants Chicago to become a city of inane and listless dilettantes in living. But no one can believe that one football game by service elevens will prevent that surely improbable misfortune. The more sane thinking done both there and here the fewer displays of peace profiteers or war worshippers will be necessary. And until the advent of that sane thinking the displays should at least be unheralded...
...differences. This applies to individuals as well as to nations. However, the big nations of the world went to war ten years ago and there is no doubt that they and all others are tired of war. Therefore, this is the best time to undertake any action that will prevent wars in future. The best way to prevent the action is for the principals to get together and honestly talk over the methods which may be adopted to bring about the result...
Hindenburg. [The Kaiser's favorite] Captain Ludendorff . . . who was not even of the nobility, could not be given the position of Commander-in-Chief. To prevent friction and quarrels the distinction had to be conferred on some passive, easy-going general who would permit caustic, hard-headed Ludendorff, a neurasthenic with a will as well as muscles of steel, to have his own way. . . . Old General Paul von Hindenburg was on the pension list. . . . He would not disturb or irritate the inordinately egotistical and self-assured Ludendorff. . . . Hindenburg was appointed Commander-in-Chief...