Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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World Peace. To the Council on Foreign Relations, at a banquet in Manhattan presided over by John W. Davis, Secretary Kellogg expounded "The War Prevention Policy of the United States." He generalized on the subject of multilateral treaties to outlaw war in such a way as to inform Foreign Minister Briand of France-who at about that time was nibbling his pen in Paris over an answer to Secretary Kellogg's last note-that the U. S. will not consider any military alliance to prevent war, but only a peaceful compact, and that the U. S. does...
...Margaret Sanger (Mrs. J. Noah H. Slee), famed birth controller, declared last week, as she landed from the He de France that in Germany 98% of all prospective brides apply to government bureaus where they are told how to prevent conception...
...campaign fund. The fact that a president of the United States should be suspected of receiving bribes shows the extent to which dishonesty had spread in the administration of that time. Even if the president himself was not implicated, it is apparent that he made no effort to prevent...
With the action of the Student Council in expurging from its constitution Clause VI included under the Powers of the Council, the long-debated instrument is finally ready for ratification. In itself a matter of little moment, the clause which would theoretically have empowered the Council to "prevent any-man who shows an indisposition to respect its recommendations from becoming or remaining a member of any organization open to free competition," has served to show the attitude of the Administrative Board toward undergraduate affairs...
...still above the ordinary, and his adventures are still hair-raising. But he now becomes something which he never was before--a human being. Several times he misses his mark; he was, if often more crafty, several times outwitted by the Indians; and his exceptional virtue did not prevent his twice marrying without benefit of clergy...