Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission was set up to prevent the latter. In 1890, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed to prevent the former. Later, the Federal Trade Commission was set up to aid in suppressing such practices and the Clayton Act to prevent interlocking directorates was passed. Meanwhile, the trusts were continuing. Things were getting bad and the country was getting frightened. Arthur T. Hadley, then President of Yale, conservative as he was, admitted, along about 1900, his fear that within 25 years the country would be ruled by an economic emperor at Washington...
...undersigned, respectfully beg to call your attention to the proposed order for putting motor engines on the gondolas in Venice, and ask that you consider such measures as you may think proper to prevent this order which would cause the destruction of the tranquility, the beauty and the unique charm which has always made of Venice a city universally beloved and a cherished goal for all travellers...
Communiques prophesied that the Government* howitzers would set up their belching chorus of explanation any day, but the day was continually postponed. It was supposed that defense would be offered on the basis that the Government had to indemnify the industrialists for their losses in order to prevent the secession of the Ruhr and Rhineland from Germany. Eventually the Government will ask the Reichstag to give its expost facto agreement to the disbursed credits...
...Church to a share of the control and direction of the erection, maintenance and management of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and neither the execution of this agreement by the undersigned nor the making of the donation aforesaid by the undersigned shall be considered or construed to prevent the amendment of the charter, constitution or statutes of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in such manner as to bring about the accomplishment of this result...
...fact that India is a harlot of the British Empire? I am certain that you will persist in calling the British Empire by the rosy name of "Commonwealth of Nations" and so oh and put India in it as one of the commonwealths. Well, I cannot prevent you from doing it, but I owe it to my conscience to protest against the prostitution of this word...