Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patients will be seen in the order that messages are received, with the exception of any urgent call which will be answered as soon as possible. Students whose illnesses are not serious enough to prevent their going out should go to the Medical Advisor's office on the second floor of Wadsworth House between 8.30 and 9.30 o'clock in the morning, and between 4.30 and 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon...
...excitement rose above the chatter of the assembly when Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's report on rum running in the mandated territories was suddenly and dramatically shelved. Dr. Nansen (Swedish) was about to introduce a motion asking certain mandatory powers to take more active steps to prevent rum selling to natives. As the wording of the report was thought likely to arouse the ire of those "certain" Nations (Britain, France, Italy, Japan are the chief mandatory powers), it was whisked away for "toning down...
...diplomatic career in Rio de Janeiro. He soon won promotion and he was transferred to the embassy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1912 he was made counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government...
...treatment. As certain French commodities must pay the maximum U. S. duty, the French contend that certain U. S. goods must pay the maximum French duties. Seemingly there is no way out of the impasse, although it was admitted in responsible quarters that every nerve will be strained to prevent a ruinous tariff...
...North Pole, it works up to a denunciation of the Italian skipper, Umberto Nobile, who piloted the ship. ". . . This hired skipper of a Norwegian ship owned by an American and myself shall not be permitted to usurp honors that do not belong to him. This record is written to prevent...