Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discipline is lost when those charged with assisting the Government fail to take strict measures to prevent disorders...
...becomes the flagship of the New York Yacht Club, of which Vincent Astor is Commodore for 1928 (TIME, Feb. 6). In many ways, Commodore Astor is the perfect yachtsman. The management of his real estate properties is not sufficiently arduous to prevent his spending days and weeks contemplating the sea from one of the three decks of the "Light of My Soul." It might indeed be impossible for the perfect yachtsman to be a mentally aggressive fur-trader and land-getter, as was Commodore Astor's famed great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor...
According to the U. S. interpretation, the combine (including the U. S. and Bethlehem Steel Corps.) was to be organized under the provisions of the Export Trade Act to prevent competitive price-cutting between U. S. steelmen in European markets. Through consolidation of foreign offices, elimination of duplicate staffs, considerable economies might be effected. Thus the U. S. would be in a better position to compete with the rejuvenated German steel industry. (TIME, July...
...contrivance was steel framed, nine feet in diameter, with a sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...
Early last week, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition prosecutions, conferred in Manhattan with Maurice Campbell, local Prohibition administrator, to settle the exact details of evidence-collection that would ensure airtight cases against the violators. Then, to prevent "leaks," the raiding squad was locked in an office without a telephone for four hours and kept there until specific instructions were issued...