Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia, and to the U. S. Naval Maneuvers in the Pacific. Coincident with the movement to invoke a cloture rule in the Senate to prevent filibustering, and a rule to resscind the courtesy privilege whereby ex-members have the privilege of the floor, is an organized attempt to put an end to excess junketing...
...allow a lack of money to prevent you from taking advantage of these opportunities. Community Book Shop is willing to open an account with you--and without undue formalities...
...convinced that Dr. Sheldon Jackson of Alaska will be remembered through the ages not only for the theology that he taught in Alaska, but unquestionably for his establishment of the reindeer industry of Alaska. The efforts of the Rockefeller Foundations to repair the diseases through hospitals and to prevent diseases like hookworm have not one fota of justification to be rated as bigger service to mankind than the enabling of the grazing lands of Labrador to become a new source of blessing to mankind...
CITY MOVES TO PREVENT FLOOD. --Boston Herald...
...advise him accordingly. Contact with these leaders, whose sole object is to guide men to the most congenial outlets for their individual talents, may well save years of undirected groping. The whole effort is being made to help men get started in work they will always enjoy to prevent the wastage and the bitterness which result from a misguided or unguided choice...