Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shares for one, but holders of preferred were requested to surrender their holdings, on a share-for-share basis, for new preferred plus a $20 cash payment. The cash payment would be in settlement of large accrued and unpaid dividends. President Franklin thought that only some such plan could prevent dissolution and reorganization...
Early in the first part of the first inning in which the CRIMSON nine did some tremendous scoring the Lampooners already resorted to ungentlemanly tactics, attempting to prevent several CRIMSON men from reaching the initial sack...
...business man's hand in no uncertain way, and in both cases exploitation took place under cover and the facts relating to the questions have not been fully uncovered yet. The fact that the corporations active in these fields brought every possible influence to bear in attempting to prevent public investigation shows a very unhealthy attitude...
...Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
...publication. Several examples of this have recently occurred. If only good news is published the reading public will have scant respect for its value. All the news should come out, whether for good or ill. The very fact that it is going to be printed will increase efforts to prevent the happening of things that are more to our injury than credit. And this is especially true of continuing conditions, brought out by studies of the institution itself, its structure, its traditions, its policies, its results. The more the public knows about the University of Virginia, the better opinion will...