Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor H. A. Stewart and his City Council did not want a Fascist convention held -in their city, called out the police to prevent it. Defiantly, Leader Arcand slipped 45 of his leaders into a room near Police Headquarters, held forth unmolested for five-and-a-half hours. Upon emerging, Leader Arcand wired thanks to the mayor for "courtesy extended," announced the formation of a new National Unity Party. A flaming torch will be the new party's emblem, "Canada for the Canadians" its slogan, the upraised arm its salute and "King, Country and Christianity" its program...
Concluded Dr. King: "I have never seen a tonsillectomy cure exophthalmic goitre, but I believe that this procedure helps to prevent recurrences...
...prevent a recurrence of the situation that brought about the 1934 Black inquiry, when the Errett Cord interests half-cornered the airmail subsidy of $16.500.000, holding 13 of 26 contracts through mergers and consolidations, the Act forbids mergers, interlocked directorates and subleasing of carrier contracts without consent of the authority...
...project of Senators O'Mahoney and Borah. Regardless of what else may result from the inquiry, their bill's eventual passage by Congress seems sure. But, as astute Columnist Raymond Clapper last week observed: "His struggle will not be to get the measure through, but to prevent some of the extreme New Dealers from loading it with more executive discretionary power than he wishes to allow...
Paraguay, which year ago withdrew from the League of Nations, last week sent word to Geneva that it was also resigning membership in the Permanent Court of International Justice, located at The Hague. No official explanation was attached but Paraguay's plain purpose was to prevent Bolivia from hauling the still-unsettled Gran Chaco dispute before that tribunal. Both nations signed an optional clause in the World Court protocol and statutes which provided that if one nation wished to bring a case into court, the other signatory nation involved was bound to submit to its jurisdiction. Bolivia is still...