Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in Cleveland, a different point of law had been brought up. A lawyer asked an injunction to prevent the Collector of Internal Revenue from publishing his tax return on the grounds that it was his private property. A federal judge ruled that his tax return belonged not to him but to the Government and denied the petition...
Physical Culture and other Macfadden publications are abhorred in many quarters for their execrable taste and blatant hypocrisy. But the prime motive of the attack upon Physical Culture by the American Medical Association was to prevent the dissemination of what the Association feels to be outrageously fallacious and dangerous medical misinformation. Hygcia's article, to which the attention of the medical profession was called editorially in the Oct. 25 issue of the Association's Journal, concentrated chiefly upon the advertising pages of Physical Culture, citing numerous nostrums there offered which the Medical Association declared to be positively fraudulent. Hygeia reproduced...
...would be involved The dirigible would be deprived of all weather reports, and might meet wild and unexpected gales in the barren North. The terrible cold of Arctic regions, enhanced by altitude, would tax the endurance of the crew to the utmost, and extreme precautions would be necessary to prevent freezing of radiators and engines. A forced landing in the frozen wilds would mean certain death. Success would have little value. Fleeting observations of magnetic action, a rough sketch map of hastily observed and barren, ice-covered areas would be the sum total of results. "Is the game worth...
Australia and America, on the other hand, are nearly at one in law, ancestry, and ambitions. They are cousins closely enough allied to be on a most friendly footing, and yet geographically separate enough to prevent a clash of interests. That there is rather an identity of interests is hinted at by the repeated references to the Australian exclusion of Orientals as a precedent for our recent action. The maintenance by Australia and the United States of tariff bars against England, the common need to limit Japanese power in the southern and eastern Pacific, suggest a basis for understanding...
American philosophy of the state is in this respect quite different from the French. The state exists to prevent infringement of the thou-shalt-not's of the law. Except for the exercise of this primary right, government is supposed to stand aloof, and in the arts, as in business, it boasts a policy of "laissez faire...