Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Robinson might be a political good fortune for the President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded, was full of such sentiments...
...mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality are less than $12,000. We have no jail because we don't need one. In the entire community dwell 8,000 Negroes and we have not had a capital crime in 13 years. . . . The citizens of Mound...
...growing worried because they would not hatch, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau has since last December been sitting on the Government's sterilized golden nest egg. Ever since then, the Government has been buying all the gold imported into the U. S. and storing it away to prevent the normal inflationary effect of such an influx. With recent imports of $5,000,000 a day and a sterile nest egg of $1,145,000,000, Mr. Morgenthau has been kept busy borrowing money to buy more of the wretched stuff...
...time he crusaded for reformation of the immigration laws to put an end to a serious U. S. shortage of servant girls. Another time he helped prevent the adoption of Daylight Saving Time in the District of Columbia by pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed...
...Calvin Willever last week of newspaper reports that Western Union and Postal Telegraph were about to be prosecuted for violation of the anti-trust laws. Prudence, said Mr. Willever, had dictated that in some cities each company should maintain its offices far enough from the other's to prevent ''dilution of business." Any notion that this could form the basis of an anti-trust action, Mr. Willever said, was as silly as the rumor that Western Union and Postal might merge (TIME, July 5). In Washington Department of Justice officials called the story "quite premature...