Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League is necessary to police the ruffian nations," he continued, "just as we have police in our cities to protect citizens from the ruffians there. Man is a quarrelsome animal, and he will fight if offered. The League should prevent offense...
...Passed a bill substituting electrocution for hanging as capital punishment for the District of Columbia. ¶ Passed a bill to prevent oil pollution of coastal waters...
...friendly relations with the U. S. About the first of the year its fleet was sighted in mid-Atlantic. At once our Pacific fleet was ordered to the Atlantic. Our Atlantic Fleet remained in Narragansett Bay, protecting our eastern coast. A detachment of the enemy proceeded to Panama to prevent our Pacific Fleet from passing through the Canal. This detachment, known as the Black Fleet, was impersonated by our Atlantic Fleet. The Pacific Fleet, attempting to pass through the Canal, was dubbed the Blue Fleet. Could the Blue Fleet enter the Atlantic...
...threat of the Congressional irreconcilables to prevent official consideration of the Bok Peace Prize Plan cannot be too strongly condemned," said Mr. Joseph E. Warner '06 in an interview recently with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Warner is the Assistant Attorney-General of Massachusetts...
Failure on Germany's part to pay reparations, therefore, meant not only certain bankruptcy but equally certain disillusionment of the French people and the probability of revolution. The desire to prevent Germany from winning an economic victory, the determination to make Germany pay reparations and the supreme intention of safeguarding the French people from financial catastrophe and future military aggression, were the cardinal reasons why France went into the Ruhr...