Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road is under lease to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, but it is still the property of the State of Georgia. Now Chattanooga wants to condemn land for a street through the railroad yards of Georgia's railway. Georgia asked the Supreme Court for an injunction to prevent it. Chattanooga countered by denying the Supreme Court's jurisdiction under the Eleventh Amendment. Last week Georgia filed a brief declaring that although the Eleventh Amendment prevented the citizens of one State from suing another, there was nothing in the Constitution to prevent one state from filing proceedings...
...been so ignorant" as to use his envelopes without stamping them. Thereupon the contrite General Manager began a check on the number of letters sent out, promised to send a check to the Post Office Department for the postage, despatched a telegram to the National Republican Committee to prevent the Congressman's "getting in wrong," made a public statement: "I'm solely responsible. I made a big mistake...
...Mexican people, to pretend to stain my name. There is more yet. Treacherously and cowardly they have threatened to take my life. What less than that, they start with trying to take away my honor, which I always tried to keep clean and pure. They are trying to prevent a breakdown in the Treasury, but the whole nation knows that for three years I have known how to attend to the necessities of the Administration. . . . The presentation of his [Pani's] libelous statement has the object of covering incompetence to solve the financial problem which...
...rule which he quoted deals with sideline coaching and is headed, 'Conduct of persons other than players', the purpose of which is to prevent coaching from the sidelines. The case in point is specifically covered in the rules under 'Substitutions' which states, 'An incoming substitute shall not communicate in any way with any of the players upon the field until after the ball has been put in play---. In case the substitute sent in is to take the place of the man who had regularly been giving signals previous to his removal from the game, the man sent...
...Treasure Room of the Widener Library in connection with the anniversary of Roosevelt's birthday contains and especially interesting manuscript. This is the rough draft of a letter addressed by Roosevelt to General Shafter, August 4, 1898, urging that the American troops in Cuba be immediately transported North to prevent their destruction by disease. It was written the same day as the famous Round Robin which was signed by Roosevelt and by a number of other officers. The original draft intended apparently to be used as a newspaper interview but afterwards changed over in Roosevelt's hand to the form...