Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stand Together. Dean Acheson continued his lecture in a radio speech which was cleared with Harry Truman and delivered with a Shakespearian actor's measured resonance. The U.N., he said, is "not working as effectively as we hoped because one of its members has attempted to prevent it from working...
...group felt that the bill would limit freedom of speech, and as such would violate the Constitution, Melville B. Nimmer 2L, president of the local chapter of the Lawyer's Guild stated. The "anti-atheism" clause could prevent the teaching of certain concepts in fields such as anthropology and philosophy, he added...
...have been wondering if the Rev. Dr. Guy Shipler intends to honor Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam for his militant efforts to prevent Roman Catholic children from using public school buses? . . . The men who set out to destroy Roman Catholicism, in effect, destroy Christianity as well, because when the united Church of Rome falls there will be no hope for any other Christian church, especially Protestantism ... In this I speak as a Protestant and not as a Roman Catholic...
...week Judge Joseph W. Vickers threw out Russian Exile Stravinsky's damage suit (headlined the New York Daily News: IGOR MORTIS), but added sympathetically that a suit against Leeds for breach of contract might be more in order: "The court feels that a composer has the right to prevent his name from being attached to a composition which he did not write...
...difficult to disagree with anyone who claims that the means do not justify the end. But Senator Vandenberg has clouded the argument by his appeal for cricket. When the rule was adopted in 1917, its purpose was to allow two-thirds of the Senate to prevent a filibuster; the fact that later on the Dixiecrats joyfully discovered a loephole is unfortunate, yet Barkley's effort to plug that loophole seems in no way a breach of ethics...