Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place Government activities in Alaska and Hawaii entirely under one Department in the interests of efficiency and to prevent duplication of effort...
...That naturalization laws be amended to provide for an annual en- rollment of resident aliens. This would help to prevent undetected immigrants from coming in by illicit means. Coupled with it would be a plan for educating aliens in U. S. "customs, language, ideals, institutions...
...need for preserving business "secrets" and the very bigness of business machinery prevent the modern parent from copying the method of Benjamin Franklin's father, who took his son to the various occupations, and then let him choose the one he liked best. The Committee on Choice of Vocations, in an attempt to replace the ancient father, performs two extremely valuable functions. For men who have already chosen their profession the committee offers a series of personal conferences, so that the student may choose the particular division of his profession for which he is most fitted. For the more difficult...
...German elections, the results of which were announced yesterday, were colorless and indecisive, in the opinion of Professor Robert Howard Lord '06 of the Department of History. He declared the result showed that the German people were inclined to give the Republic another lease of life and to prevent, for the present at least, a revival of the monarchy...
...drastic ultimatum to Egypt, Britain made it evident that she intends to govern and stay in Egypt and prevent the Sudan from retrogressing into the savagery from which Lord Kitchener rescued it in 1898. The terms savor, some opinion has claimed, of opportunism. This may be true, but Britain had evidently reached the end of her patience. The murder of the Sirdar unfortunately precipitated a situation that was found, in any event, to be the inevitable corollary of organized propaganda against Britain in Egypt and the Sudan, which, despite warnings from Britain, has never been discouraged by the Egyptian Government...