Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest move being made by the United States to prevent the spread of foreign control in American fields is the denial of oil land lease assignments to the Roxana Petroleum Corporation. This ostensibly American company, all of whose stock is owned by a Delaware corporation, is in reality under foreign control, since a majority of the voting stock of the holding company is, in turn, owned by the Royal Dutch-Shell combine. The Roxana Company is shut out of lease-holds by the leasing law of 1920, which provides that " citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations...
...Government has ordered a general investigation of all workmen's organizations with the object of ascertaining the amount of their funds, how they were subscribed, how they are being expended. This action is to prevent the laborites investing in arms and munitions for the purpose of terrorism...
These remarks all apply to the world; but their meaning to the college is evident. For the very purpose of a "liberal" education, university studies are arranged for breadth: yet not even general examinations prevent the student from shutting up his knowledge in separate notebooks on his shelf. One listens in vain to catch in the conversation of a young, "litteratus" a reference to the science course he has taken, and the young lawyer salts his very food with leases and court rulings...
...super-state,--a sont of international octopus busily engaged with its many writhing tentacles in sucking away the national independence of nations. Nothing could be farther from the fact, for the Council must agree unanimously on all important questions of policy, and thus a single national veto can prevent the League from pursuing a course of which that nation disapproves. The organs of the League constitute simply the political machinery by which the nations of the world may consult and act together in committee, when they so desire,--and nothing more...
...General Plutarco Calles, the favorite, is supported by the Partido Co-operatista National, by far the most important party in Mexico. It is feared that his health may prevent him from standing, in which case General Huerta will, in all probability, be chosen...