Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department now has a splendid as well as indignant reply to those who charge it with coldness toward the League of Nations. It has just agreed to co-operate with the League in trying to prevent the spread of anthrax. Previously it had announced its willingness to join in ending the smuggling of opium. Also, in the matter of the international white-slave traffic, our, Government is ready to help out the League. Of course, this benevolent attitude has to be carefully guarded. The State Department severely points out that its share in the good work is purely "unofficial...
...general welfare of mankind is out sincere purpose." We can't for reasons best known to the Senate, do anything in connection with the League of Nations, to make an end of war, but we can exert ourselves against narcotics. We can't lift a hand to prevent Armenians and Greeks from being massacred, but we can throw ourselves into the struggle to save cattle. When the churches and philanthropists find fault with the Administration, its answer is ready and complete. Only see what we are doing--anthrax and opium! The New York Times...
...next six games. In the second set Kunkel accelerated his play even more and won 6-2. Bradley then returned to the attack with a more puzzling serve and a better control of his ground shots. Although Kunkel did his best and fought for every point, he could not prevent Bradley's smashing through and taking the third set 6-2. But the latter could not maintain this terrific force, and so Kunkel, making the most of his opportunity, won the last...
Beginning today the Lower Reading Room in Widener will be open just as the main reading room,--until 10 P. M. daily, Saturdays included, and from 1 until 10 P. M. every Sunday. This is expected to prevent the former Saturday noon rush for books to be used over the week...
...private and civil law with compulsory justice, but which leaves international law wholly without it. He then passed on to consider the League of Nations from three standpoints; the political, the economic, and the moral. He declared that another war would sweep away European civilization and must be prevented at all cost. He maintained that the seeds of another European conflict are even now germinating, and that the only hope of peace and a settlement of the turmoil lay in a coordination of nations in a determined effort to prevent...