Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broader aim which the Crimson conceives for its Confidential Guide, an aim through which service can be rendered to the college as a whole. It is the hope of the editors that their pamphlet is a watchdog of Harvard's educational system, guarding its high standards and helping to prevent any lowering of them. As long as its criticism remains unbiased and constructive, and in so far as it continues to approach an accurate expression of undergraduate thought, this ideal will be realized...
...fermenting, musicians, competing with canned music, are sullen, composers are at odds about patents-but Mr. Ethridge's chief duty will be using his charming Southern accent to reason Mr. McNinch away from some of his notions. Reports that he was going to censor all radio material to prevent such celebrated slips as the affair Mae West, he implied, were ridiculous. He will take no salary. When Radio really finds a Tsar, he will gracefully step aside...
...trustees had, however, one particular achievement at which they could point with pride: a vaccine to conquer yellow fever. From 1900 (when the late Dr. Walter Reed proved that a mosquito transmitted yellow fever from man to man) until 1932, sanitary experts fought yellow fever by taking measures to prevent mosquito breeding. In 1932. however, Brazilian medical men discovered yellow fever cases in jungles where no yellow fever mosquitoes existed. How jungle yellow fever is transmitted remains a mystery...
...about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration...
...days later Franklin Roosevelt's railroad conference met again. This time major topics were: 1) creation of a new agency probably within the ICC to have complete jurisdiction over railroad reorganizations and to cut down the stupendous railroad bonded indebtedness; 2) amendment of the Bankruptcy Act to prevent minority groups of security holders from sidetracking railroad reorganizations as they do now with such effectiveness that no road has come through reorganization in five years; 3) establishment of a Federal authority to compel consolidation...