Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boyd testified that he attempted in vain to prevent Dodd's going to Germany, at Klein's request, to placate cli ents of the publicist who were unhappy over criticism of Klein in a Senate committee investigation. It was April 1964, and Dodd was floor manager for two sections of the Civil Rights bill. "He understood it was a bad time to go," Boyd testified, "but he said, 'I have to go.' He said, 'Julius has been pressing me and pressing...
...Flag, certainly had a bloodthirsty ring. "A death struggle between the bourgeoisie to restore capitalism and the proletariat" is taking place, warned Red Flag, calling on the people of Red China to guard against a "counterrevolutionary" uprising of the 1956 Hungarian variety. "Failure to take the necessary steps to prevent it would cost the lives of millions of our people...
...Corporation fires Samuel S. Bowles, an instructor in Economics, for refusing to sign the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath (all teachers in the Commonwealth must swear to uphold its and the nation's constitutions). Bowles obtains an injunction to prevent his dismissal until the Supreme Judicial Court decides whether the oath is constitutional. The University does not contest his action...
There was an election in 1940, and Wilkie easily best Roosevelt in a CRIMSON straw poll of the entire College. "Wendell Wilkie and Franklin D. Roosevelt offer a confusing and unsatisfactory choice," a CRIMSON editorial said, and added that neither candidate would be able to prevent American involvement...
...failed to consider the self-serving motives of the German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...