Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Success with Spain. The same "Tammany" forces which failed to exclude Ethiopia last week had been simultaneously applying pressure to prevent the Madrid Cabinet from formally demanding that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration...
...months, tired of parades, catchwords, "discipline" and adolescent savagery, he dons civilian clothes, tries to leave, is slapped in the face by the commandant of cadets, discovers that he is a prisoner. While he is serving 30 days in the guardhouse, one of his roommates, whose notions of duty prevent him from reporting a cold to the infirmary, dies of pneumonia. In Thornton's hearing the conscientious medical officer tells the commandant that the school ought to be prosecuted. The commandant hints that if Thornton ignores this incident, he will be made a sergeant next year...
...London had clapped on his derby hat and was winging toward Geneva. As a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Adolf Hitler, some of whose German bombing planes were strafing the Red militia in Spain last week (see p. 19). the British and French lobbied furiously in efforts to prevent Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo from asking the Assembly of the League of Nations to do something about Portuguese-German-Italian aid to the Spanish Whites and about the Great Powers embargo denying arms to Madrid. In a Geneva newspaper article signed by Portuguese Foreign Minister Dr. Armindo Rodriguez...
...digestive tract will plunge them into uncontrollable hysterics. ' In bed Latin males, according to Esquire's female researcher, are poor company: "They spend far more time in words than in action." They are "all worn out at 23," but their "lack of masculine energy" does not prevent them from boasting of their prowess. "My advice to the American male is: Go South, young man, Go South...
...direct and potentially corrosive influence on public opinion. But as now applied the oaths inevitably reflect upon the character of the teaching profession. Moreover, their sponsors can hardly hope thus to accomplish their real purpose, for supposing that rarest of animals, a disloyal teacher, no oath is going to prevent his making his real views felt...