Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Davis and Judge Arthur H. James (for Governor) capitalizing this issue, Chief Democrat Roosevelt's help was sorely needed to prevent a return of pivotal Pennsylvania to the Republican column...
...understood that the grill is doomed unless strong undergraduate opinion is formed to prevent its misuse. The matter has been laid before the Student Council, college officials said, where an investigation is being conducted to attempt to offer a solution to the problem...
...blonde burglar, the wife who won consistently at roulette until he married her, then lost just as steadily. (During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller. He recognizes her for the Monte Carlo countess, but tries to prevent her from recognizing him.) From cardsharping, he continues, he made the sorry error of turning to mere gambling and lost his hard-won savings in honest play. Poor again, he found work in a playing card factory but lost his job because he marked the cards. (At this point...
Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, author of Why Not Try God?, came out in favor of an international sit-down strike by women to prevent war,* added: "Of course, I know and you know that there is a Utopian weakness in such a scheme." Asked to comment on the international crisis, former Kaiser Wilhelm, who last week varied his daily routine by visiting an Egyptian exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, refused to discuss "anything less than 2,000 years old." At a stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate...
...promises, who think it wrong for Germany to grab territory and peoples that do not belong to her. Undoubtedly, these, like so many acts of all countries, should not take place. But in a given situation a country like England must do what is most expedient and reasonable to prevent from doing what is more unmoral: take a positive part in the destruction of men and their civilization. Chamberlain is using reason against force...