Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President informed newsgatherers that in his opinion, a unanimous vote of the Council of the League of Nations is necessary for requesting an advisory opinion from the World Court. Ergo any nation represented on the Council can object and thus prevent the question at issue from being submitted to the World Court. The U.S., declared President Coolidge, is seeking by means of Reservation Five to secure for itself only an equality with nations seated on the League Council...
That may well be within reason, for they have been able to loan money, with profit to themselves, at 2% interest. That was how they could prevent Dillon, Read & Co.* from underwriting all the $60,000,000 bonds of the newly organized German United Steel Works-the consolidation of Thyssen, Phenix, Rheinstal, Deutsch-Luxembourg steel corporations (TIME, July 5). They permitted Dillon, Read to take only one-half of the offering. They took the other half themselves...
...last week the subject of contention among the nations. Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain set the pot of contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration was despatched, are, of course, signatories in whole or in part* to the Act of Algeciras (1906), delimiting the foreign spheres of influence in Morocco. By the supplemental...
...becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos. The crisis passes, as laughter, blood of the play, flows freely again. In the last scene, the amateur gigolo appears in time to prevent Ann from running off with his professional colleague. After all, had not these two misunderstood souls been welded into an eternal bond by the Tschaikovsky business ? But why write of the play? The wisecrack's now the thing. To Actor Osgood Perkins, most of the many funny lines have...
...more alert of the Cleveland citizenry know that Dr. George Washington Crile is one of the great men of surgery. They know that his method of blocking nerves to prevent the shock of operations (anoci-association) is as great a landmark in medicine as the first application of anesthetics, that he has improved the method of transfusing blood; that he is a world authority on goiter, that at his Cleveland Clinic they may get a physical examination of scholarly exactitude. Very few know that he and his associates have performed 2,670 experiments on animals, including man, and made countless...