Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroaders from private business men, not seldom of piratical bent, into public servants, was begun in 1887 with the founding of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroaders had collected the money, begged or bought the land, built and consolidated the lines. The Commission was established to prevent the railroaders: 1) from charging the public exorbitant rates, to the detriment of the public pocket; 2) from cutting each others' business throats, to the detriment of commerce; 3) from mishandling their finances, to the detriment of public transportation and of general business security...
...half a dozen years. The rotating disc with its holes arranged in spirals is his, as is the method synchronizing the television sending and receiving sets. Transoceanic radio and radio telephony are possible because he invented the Alexanderson high frequency alternator. To buy that invention and thus to prevent the British Marconi Co. from acquiring it, the Radio Corporation of America was created. He is R. C. A.'s chief consulting engineer. One of the receiving sets used last week stood in the corner of a ground floor room in his home at Schenectady. He is 50 years...
...California cried: "Save the beaches!" In a newspaper article he declared that oil interests were menacing the "spectacular charm," "the permanent scenic and spiritual enrichment," of the littoral playground of Californians and their visitors. Let oil-drilling be remitted, asked Governor Young, until means could be found to prevent the defacement and pollution of scenery whose value is "unmeasurably greater than the value of all the oil. . . . " Governor Young's article appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, owned by Oil man William Randolph Hearst...
...should be added that, as far as we can fell, the recent encyclical has not been issued "ex cathedra" and hence is not to be regarded as "infallible," which means that there is nothing to prevent the revision of its chief positions in the future. Moreover, just as in the years following 1864 leading Romanists assured the world that the Syllabus taken at its face value was misleading and that the pope did not really mean what the seems to say, so it may be that some further interpretation of the recent letter will appear which will give...
...newspapers themselves must work out some control of their news columns that will prevent them from playing the game of the clever defendant and his unscrupulous associates...