Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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March 7, Secretary Hughes wrote Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador, asking whether the Canadian Government was disposed to cooperate to prevent rum running...
Fifteen thousand faithful Bolsheviki are employed to prevent the Senators from coming into contact with the ordinary citizens. Elaborate preparations are said to have been made to create an impression of prosperity and satisfaction. The Soviet leaders are reputed to believe that a favorable opinion by the Senators on their return to the United States will be a decisive factor in influencing the United States to grant credit. Continuing, the report stated that the Soviet tactics are nothing new in the history of Russia: "Catherine the Great preceded Senators Ladd and King along the road of Russian dupes when...
...general strike was proclaimed at Corufia in Spain as a protest against the war in Morocco. All stores were closed, tramways suspended service. To prevent disorders, police and civil guards patrolled the streets...
...schools and colleges should imitate the few pioneers who are now teaching the basic facts and principles of labor problems," says Mr. Barnes, " it would become vastly easier to understand business cycles, to retain prosperity, to prevent strikes and to bring about cooperation among nations against future wars...
...still greater effect upon Chicago wheat prices has been the reports of a much larger Russian wheat crop this year. It has not been forgotten that Russia was until 1914 the granary of Europe, and even Bolshevism has not availed to prevent a considerable recovery in wheat production from post-War conditions. There is, of course, an element of propaganda in many of the current stories of huge Russian stocks of wheat, but these have a substratum of truth...