Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the Government should levy graduated taxes to prevent monopoly profits in the anthracite industry...
John Bull, whom Secretary Hughes has been trying to persuade to let us extend our property rights nine miles further to seaward to prevent rum-running, sent a reply to the State Department. The text of the note was not made public and will not be until the matter is closed. But the State Department let it be known that the reply was "not sympathetic...
...gown" at no matter what cost to undergraduate activities. According to the latest report Sophomores have been asked to sign a pledge promising not to "take part in any noisy or riotous actions or demonstration in the streets of New Haven" and to do all in their power to prevent their "fellow students from offending against the peace or prosperity of this city or its citizens...
This will prevent needless waiting in line and facilitate the whole matter of enrollment which is further simplified by another innovation for students in the College; Each man upon registering will be handed a large manila envelope containing all necessary instructions, regulations, blanks to be filled in, and general information. A bill for the first quarter of the year's tuition and infirmary fee is also included which may be paid by check mailed September 24. In this way no man will have to collect his various papers or go from place to place for information; everything he needs...
...determine how much the operators should bear of the increase; 3) that the Interstate Commerce Commission should reconsider coal freight rates with a view to absorbing part of the extra cost of anthracite. He also in a letter to 30 state governors suggested that they take measures to prevent profiteering by wholesalers, jobbers...