Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irrigation projects; told how, in many cases, settlers were in dire distress because the Government's estimated cost of reclaiming their lands had been greatly increased by the time the actual project was completed. He quoted the Republican platform which recommended the curtailing of irrigation projects to prevent overproduction, and then exclaimed...
...important decision was made when the Congress agreed to give the Council (a permanent body) greater power to intervene in industrial disputes. Hitherto, the power of the Council has been limited to mediation when mediation was wanted, but under its new powers it is to try to prevent industrial disputes or to marshal all the forces of the unions in aid of any union which it supports. Thus, if a union declines to accept the ruling of the Council, it is to be reported to the next Congress and deprived of support from the rest oi the unions...
...their children had to leave the neighborhood to attend school, thus risking their lives in Chicago traffic thus wasting time, wearing out shoes Principal Harrower, protected by police, tried to address the irate elders was jeered, hissed, booed, called "liar,' "sneak." The parents sought an injunction to prevent Harper being a junior high school, were refused...
British miners besought Premier MacDonald to prevent Germany from paying any more reparations in coal- France, to a large extent, and Germany, to a lesser degree, have in recent years been the largest coal customers of Britain-and generally warned him of the effect that the London Agreement (TIME, Aug. 25, INTERNATIONAL) will have on the industry. Political leaders are beginning to growl; for British trade and British influence were being threatened on the Continent by a likely combination that is to give a new meaning to the doctrine of the balance of power...
...Great Britain, Japan, France and the United States, learning of the grave danger of hostilities breaking out between the provincial authorities of Kiangsu and Chekiang, feel it our duty to repeat and reaffirm in the most solemn manner the obligations of the Chinese Government in the present crisis, to prevent loss of life and property to members of the foreign community in and around Shanghai...