Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thereby throwing the balance of power to Congress since a simple majority would be sufficient to thwart any executive proposal. Scurrying to round up votes against the amendment. Floor Leader Barkley found so few that it seemed advisable to have Louisiana's Ellender launch a miniature filibuster to prevent a roll call. Meanwhile, Floor Leader Barkley was so busy bargaining on the floor that Mr. Borah was moved to another and more pertinently acid comment on the proceedings. Said he: "Certain things are being promised on and off the floor that amount to reorganization of the Government before...
...German educator, who has ad an active part in this work, revealed that several experimental schools were started there after the war by people wanting to prevent nationalistic hatred...
...systems" played by roulette addicts, if not simply schemes for pyramiding bets, are mostly based on supposed frequency patterns in which numbers or groups of numbers turn up. The casino managements, serenely confident that the best system ever devised will not prevent the house from getting its inexorable percentage, not only permit their clients to play systems but to take notes on the winning numbers, notes on which the systems depend. This week the Casino at Monte Carlo is even placing at the disposal of its sleek patrons a number of machines, designed by Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein, which will...
Orthodox Church. With no legal power to prevent its ratification, Orthodox Church followers (about half the population) proceeded to riot when the Lower House of Parliament ratified the concordat (TIME...
...Prime Minister's character and reputation, rather than his words, which gave this impression for Neville Chamberlain actually said: "The hard fact is that nothing could have arrested this action by Germany unless we and others with us had been prepared to use force to prevent...