Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this mixed force of many tongues was attributed several heroic defenses. The brigades' arrival at Madrid in November 1936 and their stubborn resistance in the Casa del Campo outside Madrid, probably gave Leftist General José Miaja enough time to organize his defenses to prevent the city's capture by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They appeared later in the successful halt of the Rightist Jarama River drive and in the panicky rout of Italian Fascist troops in the Battle of Brihuega, on the Guadalajara Road...
...Deal theory, that "Saving makes a rainy day" (because savings are translated into loans to industry, increasing fixed charges). This theory, of which the leading exponent is David Cushman Coyle (a consulting engineer of the National Resources Board), arrives at the inevitable conclusion that the way to prevent depressions is to reduce savings by heavy taxation on the people who save, i.e., the well-to-do. The New Deal is already putting it in practice...
Jerome Frank's theory is another approach to the problem: not to prevent saving but to prevent it from being translated into fixed charges. Emphasizing that his proposal was not officially inspired, he pointed out its major difficulty: the necessity of changes in State laws to allow banks and insurance companies to invest in stocks. Preferred securities he maintained would be just as sound investments for banks if they carried voting control when dividends were in arrears, thereby giving preferred stockholders the right to force a change in management...
...challenge presented to you by the Williams of 1938 is whether you can live up to these educational opportunities. It is indeed a grave challenge, for you must not allow the many foibles of college life to prevent you from concentrating on your academic work. You must not let the calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want...
...College officials who attempted to prevent violence throughout the struggle last year and at the same time maintained the complete impartiality of the University were Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, and John W. Lowes '19, Financial vice-President. Last year they went so far as to have posters raised in prominent positions to inform employees of the employer's neutrality...