Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could be gracefully done under the sponsorship of an elder statesman no longer in active politics. No newspaper printed the diners' names, Buckingham Palace having passed the word down that they should be omitted from news stories to prevent "unfortunate speculation...
...functions assumed by the Hays organization is to help studios prevent fan magazines from outdoing Hollywood itself in bad taste, scandal and pornography. Said Hays Organization Public Relations Man Tom Pettey: "The article is pretty bad. The title is even worse. ... I don't know what we'll do about it but we'll certainly take some action...
Last week the Senate committee heard Mr. Hazelett's views, which are extremely simple: "Only way to prevent depressions, balance the budget, insure maximum employment and raise the standard of living is to increase the nation's production of wealth; therefore, taxes should be graduated to penalize companies which do not operate at full capacity, banks which do not employ their funds, landowners who do not use their land...
...second period was fast but scoreless, with only the fine work of Dave Mitell in the Crimson goal preventing a relentless Trojan attack from succeeding. In the third canto a succession of power plays proved the visitors' final undoing, when their defense was unable to check back in time to prevent four Crimson successful jumps, one by Winslow and the rest by Harding...
Witness Edsel Ford, introduced as a representative of the motors "triopoly," said he believed that "patents should be worked" (not shelved to prevent their making present devices and models obsolete, as is charged against members of most "opolies...