Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reason that:-Rules of Business Conduct are necessary to preserve stabilized conditions and to prevent lopsided prosperity within the Industry (we have four one-sentence rules...
Soundly anti-climactic was the remainder of the trading week. The recovery of Thursday afternoon had brought most of the list back to within a few points of its Thursday opening. In the two final days an unofficial but obviously potent banking pool stood ready to prevent a retreat from becoming a rout, a recession from developing into a panic. In addition to the banks already mentioned, the banking pool was described as including George F. Baker's First National, thus renewing the old Morgan-Baker alliance which once caused J. P. Morgan to remark that the friendship...
...Saint Paul's view of marriage as a preventive of fornication: "It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake...
...soccer team lost to Worcester Academy by the score of three goals to nothing Saturday afternoon on the field behind the Business School. The schoolboys outplayed their opponents in every department of the game. The yearlings lacked their usual pep, and were unable either to pass accurately, or to prevent the concerted rushes of their rivals. The Academy team had an excellent defense, stopping numerous 1933 attacks...
Veto. Also envisioned in the Young Plan was a veto proviso drafted last week at Baden-Baden to give the central bank of each nation power to limit or prevent any transaction of the B. I. S. in the country of the central bank in question or in its currency...