Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although M. Theunis has obviously swung round to the British, he is nevertheless anxious to prevent a break with France; but the fact that the Ruhr occupation is hitting Belgian industry very hard makes it imperative for the Premier to seek an early solution of the present tangle...
...That the immigration quota law sometimes makes it necessary to detain cabin as well as steerage passengers, but there are generally less than 100 British subjects under detention, very few of whom are cabin passengers. As for cages, wire partitions are placed in the rooms to prevent theft and assault...
...California and Washington, three on the taxability of the " Massachusetts trusts," North Dakota's claim against Minnesota for flood damages on the Bois de Sioux River, and others. Among the cases to come up in the Autumn is also the Government's appeal for an injunction to prevent the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange from dealing in sugar futures...
From the White House came word the President would recommend to the next Congress vigorous measures to prevent the " bootlegging" of inadmissible aliens. It is said that smuggling of aliens has developed into as much of a business as rum running; any inadmissible alien can enter the country for $500; streams of illicit immigrants are pouring in from Cuba, Mexico and British Columbia...
Soviet propaganda is disarmed by the clever device of promising abstention from anti-Soviet propaganda (charged in the Russian note). not only in Great Britain, but in all British colonies and possessions. The British Government further promises to prevent any hostile design against the Russian Government by Russian emigres...