Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main purpose of these concessions was to prevent the possibility of a large American owned and controlled rubber development in Panama, sufficient in scope to make America independent of the present British monopoly of the world's crude rubber...
According to the conception of sovereign ethics prevalent before the war, this holdup is no doubt justifiable, simply because it is possible. But the new spirit of internationalism which attempts to prevent costly disturbances can not afford to tolerate the more obvious forms of obstruction...
...preface to the book would indicate that it is little more than the circular of some railroad company advertising the glories of Glacier National Park; but, since few people read prefaces, it will not prevent their going farther and seeing that "Old, Old, Old Andrew Jackson" and "A Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either...
...went on to declare for the principle of the defeated Haugen bill?to this extent aligning himself against the Administration. He said that the proposed board to buy up farm surpluses in this country and sell them abroad to prevent domestic low prices was no larger interference in the business of agriculture than the functions of the Federal Reserve Board are in commerce and industry or of the Interstate Commerce Commission in transportation. He declared that in the long run the scheme would not cost the Treasury a dollar. That stand should be of material aid to him in Iowa...
...third candidate should prevent either of the two from getting a majority, neither will have to resign. Otherwise one or the other will have to resign after the primary in July, and it is just conceivable that both might have to resign under the literal terms of the agreement?if Mrs. Ferguson should win with a majority of less than 25,000. Between 800,000 and 1,000,000 votes are expected to be cast in the primary, since the state is watching breathlessly the Moody-Ferguson battle...