Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private business enterprises; 3) That they amend their land laws so as to aid in the large scale development of the rubber industry (in such event, the U. S. Congress will not interfere with these laws); 4) That stronger U. S. control be exercised in the Moro districts to prevent Filipino high-handed rule...
Potent Centenarian. One Richard Ferris, potent, indomitable, waved aside his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and his toddling great-great-grand-daughter as they sought to prevent his departure from London last week to celebrate his 100th birthday by riding to hounds. Said he, "I prefer to die in the saddle!" That evening he returned alive, sipped his port...
...whole plan is to prevent waste of the individual. Too often does a young college graduate get into work for which he is totally unfitted, and in which he does not advance, but wastes the best years of his life, wondering why he does not get ahead in the race. It is to prevent such waste of time and energy, and to help the individual know himself, his abilities and limitations, and in the light of these find his proper place...
...income taxes payable in 1927. Said he: "With only a few months' test of the Revenue Act of 1926, common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that we do not commit our Government to an unsound fiscal policy for the future should not prevent the Government treating its taxpayers fairly in any particular year in which Government revenues are overabundant. I believe in debt reduction along the program settled after the War, but I do not believe in the payment of a public debt to the undue burdening of productive industry...
...definition. Harvard long ago lived through the period of transition which Yale is painfully undergoing now. Yale men still lament the growth of Yale College into a university in which it is hard to preserve the old Yale unity and Yale spirit, but they have discovered no way to prevent it. Harvard met the difficulty by accepting...