Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...greater continuity of management. No doubt it is desirable that such an important business should be relieved from the fluctuations of accidental choice of Directors; and though Mr. Meyer assures us that in practice the Board nominates its own successors, there have been cases where that precaution did not prevent a few persons from election by what may be called an extra-directoral party. When the change was proposed last winter, I thought it desirable, expecting that the choice of Directors would be by the Corporation. It appears now that the Corporation declines that function, presumably because it looks...
...second, that it is practically irrepealable; and third, that the attempt to enforce it would fasten evils of the greatest magnitude upon New York City. Of these three points, Reed considered the first two from the point of view of existing conditions in New York. It is impossible to prevent the extensive violation of this law by any ordinary means or to enforce it as one of the general body of laws. Both parties to every illegal liquor transaction are anxious to conceal it. There is no party injured to report the matter to the police and there is upon...
...strict enforcement of the law was to raise the price of black-mail for keeping open saloons on Sunday from $5 to $10. We have an executive to secure results, not to observe forms, and the policy of strict enforcement does not secure the desired results; it does not prevent vice. The course of Mayor Low is right because he secures the results most beneficial to the community. If Mayor Low strictly enforces the law, it means that Tammany will come in at the next election, for before election Mayor Low repeatedly pledged himself to enforce this law judiciously...
...half kept the puck in Yale's territory. Soon Yale improved and ended the half with the score 2 to 1 in her favor. In the second half Yale quickly scored two more goals; then Harvard scored twice, but in spite of vigorous work toward the end could not prevent Yale from scoring the fifth goal...
Captain Gilles has resigned, as injuries received early in the season prevent his playing, and a new captain will be chosen...