Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roused from this torpor when Lady Nancy Astor, famed "First Woman M. P.", defended vigorously a bill designed to prevent the Government from discharging women civil employes as soon as they marry. Said Lady Astor...
...Germany and the U. S. are not represented. *First three letters of the French word panne, meaning "difficulty." The English flying term, "pancake," a verb describing a method of coming to earth with supporting surfaces of the ship flattened to retard the descent and prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster though fliers are sometimes obliged to "pancake" when damage to their controls or weather and ground conditions make other tactics impossible. šThe original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these...
...festival of hard feeling which marked the end of the trial, Aaron Sapiro and his lawyer, William H. Gallagher, had leading roles. They insinuated that the Ford attorneys had forced a mistrial to prevent Henry Ford from taking the witness stand. Incidentally, Mr. Sapiro was no doubt annoyed to have spent a round sum of money-only to find far distant the $1,000,000 which he hopes to get from Mr. Ford because of certain anti-Jewish articles published in the Dearborn Independent (TIME, March 21, 28). It did not seem likely that a new trial could be arranged...
...Edward Crowley of the New York Central R.R. last week asked permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission to become a director of the Wheeling & Lake Erie R.R., in which his company recently bought a one-sixth interest, and of four W.&L.E. subsidiaries. Under the law, which aims to prevent the nefarious interlocking of railroad directorates, he was required to submit to the I.C.C. the names of railroads in which he already is a director. There were 102 railroads in his list. So when the I.C.C. grants his latest request, Mr. Crowley, nicknamed "Pull 80 Cars" for his initials...
...TIME, May 3, 1926. This was the famed "coal budget," the alleged "profligacy" of which consisted in expending ?20,000,000 ($97,200,000) on a subsidy to the coal industry which delayed but did not prevent .the general strike and the coal strike...