Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assembly passed a resolution censuring the State House guard for permitting the "vulgar and burlesque" demonstrations of the week, requesting Governor Hoffman to prevent their recurrence. Assembly and Senate both passed resolutions requesting the Federal Government to return for relief funds $20,000,000 collected from New Jersey taxpayers. Then, unable to think of anything else to do, both Houses adjourned for two days, their leaders planning to confer in the more congenial atmosphere of a clubhouse. Encountering no opposition from the State House guard, Leader Cooke and "Speaker" Spain and their followers settled down once more on the Assembly...
High Commissioner Wauchope, however, had taken his own precautions. For four hours he stopped long-distance telephone service to prevent the spread of false rumors. He disseminated counter-rumors of his own. The police machine guns would fire, not into the air, but into the mob at any future Arab disturbance. Thus the Friday services were attended, not by the expected tens of thousands of Arabs, but by 500. When the Arabs came out of the Mosque, detachments of police fell in before and behind them, led nonresidents quietly out of the city...
...Shirley Temple is the effect Shirley Temple's success has had on her family. The Temples have already moved once since Shirley became famed. They are now building a new house which has a hill on one side and a wide lawn on the other to prevent Shirley's admirers from pressing their noses against the windows at odd hours. Mrs. Temple gets some $500 a week for spending the days with her daughter...
...question about Shirley Temple which seems to disturb people most persistently is whether she is "spoiled" or "unspoiled" by her life in the cinema. She is "unspoiled." This does not prevent her from being fresh. When, preparatory to meeting H. G. Wells, she was informed that he was the most important man in the universe, she chirped: "Oh no, he's not! God is the most important and Governor Merriam's second." In Palm Springs she showed General Pershing her autograph book and asked him whether he knew the Hollywood notables whose names were in it. On learning...
...crew is not yet smooth. Yesterday the entire boat was jumping the stroke a fraction of a second. Even Chace's competence at stroke failed to prevent a certain amount of splashing and rushing in the informal race. Added to this is the fact that at the pull through, balance is disturbed, making recovery difficult, by the tendency of the shell as a whole to swing with the oar, leaning out of the vertical. If these faults can be eradicated before the race, Whiteside will have good crew, but not by any means to judge from present appearances, a remarkable...