Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt. What worried Democrats last week was the possibility that the loss of even a few thousand votes might lose whole states to Nominee Roosevelt, swing them to Nominee Landon. A more remote chance was that Candidate Lemke might carry one or more states in the doubtful, discontented Northwest, prevent either major candidate from getting a majority of electoral votes, throw the Presidential election into the House of Representatives for the third time in U. S. history...
...motor road existed only in blueprints. We turned out for the two boys and their rut-jumping car-we hoisted them on to the railroad trestle with one wheel just outside the tracks, and the other inside and they bumped off with rubber bits in their mouths to prevent the sharp jerks from causing self-inflicted bites. Yes, they bumped off, presumably to take the Eastern Beach Trail that starts on the Atlantic side, above Colon. Whether they got where they were going or not, I don't know. Or I wouldn't know why they...
Originally designed to keep minors out of saloons, and extended to cinema theatres when these were mostly nickelodeons, the purpose of the New York law was less to prevent children from seeing movies that might damage their morals, than to keep them out of reach of the pickpockets, kidnappers and perverts supposed to be lurking in dark theatres. As cinemansions improved, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children campaigned to retain the law on the ground that moving pictures might give children bad ideas. Hereafter, to theatres which pay $10 for the privilege of having them, children...
...Republican demand for sound money, interpreted by Nominee Landon as "convertible into gold," was matched by a looking-both-ways plank designed not to offend commodity-dollar men, silverites or inflationists: "We approve the objective of a permanently sound currency so stabilized as to prevent the former wide fluctuations in value . . . a currency which will permit full utilization of the country's resources...
That was not a definite recommendation, however. SEC's proposals centred on the indenture, urging such elementary requirements as liability for failure to record mortgages, notify bondholders of defaults or prevent illegal substitutions of collateral. By setting higher legal standards for trustees and forbidding exculpatory (hedge) clauses in indentures, SEC hopes to evolve vigorous, alert agencies, per-haps paid more than trustees now receive, but whose sole purpose would be protection of security owners...