Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat, about one-fifth in cash and the balance in 7% preferred stock in a holding company to be organized. They later offered to increase the cash payment to $1,500,000, proposed that the Government accept bonds at 4½ for the balance. Their main object was to prevent sale to Captain Dollar and son. They pointed out that they had been running these boats without loss to the Government?in fact with an operating profit of about $2,000,000 during the year ending Feb. 28, 1925?and that the Government was therefore under no pressure to sell them...
...Estimates for the Singapore naval base were passed by 280 to 129 votes. The Government contended that it would prevent war, Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary for the Colonies, declaring that enlargement of the base "would be one of the most friendly acts we could perform to the United States, which is in severe danger in the Philippines. It would insure peace in that part of the world for another 100 years." The Opposition, headed by ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, was of the opinion that the existence of a first-class naval base at Singapore was sure...
...Duke of Sutherland opened the question of the reform of the House.? He advocated that the House be invested with powers similar to those enjoyed before the passage of the famous Parliamentary Act of 1911 and declared that reform of the House was the only way to prevent revolutionary changes in the event of the Labor Party coming into power in the future. He warned their assembled lordships that they had their last chance of reform...
Conservative Republican and Royalist students combined to prevent Prof. Georges Scelle, Socialist, member of the Ministere des Travaux Publics, from delivering a lecture on international law in the Paris Law School...
...anarchy and indiscipline from which the Ziwar Cabinet has lately steadily been effectinga rescue. The inevitable result of a return of the Zaghlulist régime would be the defeat of all the hopes of Egyptian independence and a resumption of British control. We are determined at any cost to prevent this eventuality...