Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...February American Mercury, asserted that the Tuberculosis Association had used the income from the seals for unsound and unscientific purposes. This income has totaled $47,500,000 between 1907 and 1927. Dr. Fishberg's point was that the money was used largely to educate the public to prevent tuberculous infection. But it is well known that 90% of the U. S. urban pop- ulation carry tubercle bacilli, which are often immunizing factors...
...City Council of Vienna which delayed and temporized when besought to issue a license by her manager. Finally, lest the powers of darkness should triumph, a deputation of rival Christian Socialists waited upon their great but dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy who rose in Parliament to interpolate the Government upon its intentions...
...Schireson, whom the American Medical Association has ostracized for years but whom it could not prevent practicing in Illinois, has straightened Actress Fanny Brice's nose, removed fat from "Peaches" Browning's legs, and sued Lady Diana Manners for payment of work on her face. One of his publicity men once sued him for $50,000 for services rendered and he was in jail for more than one term, according to records of the American Medical Association...
...campaigning. The existence of the two methods in this country is disquieting, especially so because the majority in Congress is at present opposed to the President. Since little can be accomplished with such a deadlock, the insurgents are perhaps justified in siding with the Democrats in an effort to prevent Mr. Coolidge's re-election. But the means they have taken create a precedent that carries Congress still further from the unbiased ways of judicious legislation, and the people, still further from the power of choosing their president...
...desire is not to oppose trapping or killing of animals, but I endeavor to prevent throughout the country the torturing of animals in steel traps...