Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Powder burns stung Il Duce's lips and cheek, the pistol had been fired so close. Yet he interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard...
...Illinois state senate had passed the Kessinger bill, which will require that all Board of Trade transactions be reported openly. There can be no privacy, no secrecy. The Board had a battalion of hushers lobbying the state house of representatives to prevent passage of the Kessinger bill through that body. If the bill becomes law, grain traders can get an injunction to prevent its going into effect...
...virtually all the major protagonists of the Liberal and Labor opposition. Second act: the second reading of the Government's drastic Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9 et ante) ?a bill designed to put British labor into a legal straight jacket strong enough to prevent the recurrence of the General Strike (TIME...
Laborite John R. Clynes, generalissimo of the Labor party in the absence of onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald in the U. S.: "I rise to protest that this bill would prevent workers on strike from doing anything to make their strike a success. . . . Why this Government solicitude for 'Blacklegs' ["Scabs"]? . . . This bill would make it illegal to even make faces at a 'Blackleg...
...South American businessmen should encourage their governments in promoting wise laws which will furnish a stable basis for the investment of large Sums of capital, which will prevent monopoly or exclusive privilege, but which will not hamper the development of trade. They must realize that in largely undeveloped countries capital must be employed in large units...