Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French state department must take measures to prevent the formation of foreign colonies in France. France should regulate its immigration in the same way as does the United States...
...established to loan money to Filipino farmers at reasonable rates. They now pay from 12% to 30% interest. Moro Provinces. Mindanao and Sulu, inhabited by Mohammedans, should not be separated politically from the rest of the islands,- but U. S. control in these provinces might well be strengthened to prevent Moro-Filipino animosity. Miscellaneous. The Filipino government should withdraw from its private business enterprises immediately. The Jones Act, fundamental law governing the Philippines, should not now be changed. Colonel Thompson's report, comprehensive though it is, produced nothing startling. His recommendations seldom veered from the happy middle ground. Hence...
...plan of the Communists ... is to promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention of destroying trade unionism or weakening...
...Malta. At Gibraltar a battalion of the Suffolk regiment prepared to embark for China on Jan. 2. Finally the womenfolk and children of British soldiers stationed in the interior of China were ordered last week to return to England. These measures, the War Office suavely explained, were designed to prevent a situation from arising in which His Majesty's Government might have to take military action in China to protect British lives and property...
...market one of several six-cylinder models he had ready for production at any minute? He had denied this plan, repeatedly. He drily denied it again last week, saying: "Several good automobile companies are now producing sixes. . . . We keep the engineers working on a lot of things to prevent them from tinkering too much with the Ford car." Then he sidetracked his interviewer by discussing the beauties of "economic leisure" embodied in the new five-day Ford working week...