Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expires next June, he is anxious to accomplish an annual saving of $18,000,000 by consolidating railway terminals in eleven cities. Alarmed that men might be thrown out of work, Labor objected, argued for two months with the roads, got a bill introduced in Congress to prevent the discharge of trainmen and place other restrictions on the consolidations which would prevent savings. Eager to save Coordinator Eastman's work from becoming a complete waste, President Roosevelt wrote two identical letters, one to President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, the other to Vice Chairman...
...until this week of a hearing on making the Strawn injunction permanent, he arranged for a legal representative of his Committee to appear beside Western Union as "a friend of the court." On the Senate floor he cried: "In my judgment, if any judge ever issued an injunction to prevent the delivery of papers summoned by this body, the Congress should immediately enact legislation taking away that jurisdiction from the courts, for Congress creates the jurisdiction of those courts. If I had any idea that any judge would issue an injunction against this body getting certain evidence, I would long...
Famed as the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Englewood is a solid suburban community whose weekly News lately editorialized in favor of a town incinerator which would prevent Englewood's poor from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons...
Last week appeared the first complete, authoritative medical textbook on how to produce and prevent abortions.* Forty-six centuries ago a Chinese emperor wrote down the first medical prescription for bringing about abortions. A thousand years later an Egyptian described on papyrus the tools necessary for the surgical production of abortion...
...Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic organs; 6) after plastic repair of the pelvic eugenic floor to reasons such prevent as a birth of recurrence; 7) eugenic reasons such as birth of a defective child or parental feeblemindedness; 8) suicidal tendencies; 9) economic reasons in women of high fertility; 10) previous...