Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banned extract contained, Dr. Megaro revealed, a large quantity of previously suppressed information concerning the Italian dictator's early life and writings, which the Harvard tutor obtained and smuggled out of Italy in 1925-26 and 1932-33. The biography, he said, is an attempt to prevent the building of a new "Napoleonic Legend" by reconstructing a picture of Mussolini's early career while the facts are still obtainable and the picture not permanently distorted...
Amid hushed silence Premier Leon Blum arose last week in the Chamber of Deputies and spoke for two hours in defense of his 80-word bill to give the Popular Front Cabinet totalitarian powers. "There is nothing to prevent us from profiting by certain experiences of the totalitarian regimes," observed this persuasive Socialist. "The German example is eloquent in this respect. The democracies cannot longer remain in a state of inferiority compared with the totalitarian countries...
...Harvard, urged his adherents "to develop an enlightened opposition party within the democracy of the A.M.A." His adherents took this to mean that Dr. Means was in favor of ousting the elected heads of the A.M.A. But Dr. Means merely meant that he feared that those leaders may prevent his ideas from being discussed at San Francisco...
...with a sense of decency, balance and intelligence." Most belligerent in defense of LIFE was the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America meeting in Washington this week. The Conference endorsed "the journalistic enterprise of LIFE magazine," deplored the "attitude of officials who have tried to prevent the sale of LIFE. . . . This action in itself indicates the necessity for such public health education...
Said he: "Until it has been possible for the Congress to make any and all studies for permanent solution of the railroad problem, some immediate legislation is, I believe, necessary at this session, in order to prevent serious financial and operating difficulties between now and the convening of the next Congress...