Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general public interest, the President: 1) told delegates to a great Accident Prevention Conference, called by Secretary of Commerce Roper, that the U. S. would do whatever the Conference figured the U. S. could do to prevent accidents: 2) called a North American Wild Life Conference...
...learned Justices chuckled. They questioned Mr. Hardie with interest about the facts of the case. Then Lawyer Henry Hackney argued for Farmer Moor that the Bankhead Act was unconstitutional: it was not a tax to raise revenue but to prevent the raising of cotton; it was an illegal attempt by the Federal Government to regulate farmers who are not engaged in interstate commerce. With equal interest the Justices made inquiries about the terms of the law. Next came the railroad's turn. Its lawyer made no attempt to defend the Bankhead Act, simply contending that unless the Court should...
...Government's return to the Court was to argue the case of eight Louisiana rice millers (TIME, Dec. 2) who asked a permanent injunction to prevent the collection of processing taxes from them. In the Hoosac case Lawyer Pepper had, by contrast with Solicitor Reed, got off without being asked embarrassing questions by the Court. Not so John P. Bullington, attorney for the rice millers, who was peppered with interrogations from liberal members of the bench. To prove his clients' right to an injunction Lawyer Bullington explained that if the rice millers paid...
...week was seen to be to halt the relentless march of League of Nations committees toward harsher & harsher Sanctions and to tie a knot in the banner of British idealism which has been unfurled at Geneva by handsome young Captain Anthony Eden. More specifically M. Laval was out to prevent the League from applying the crucial oil Sanction scheduled for last week. Released with the formal imprimatur of Britain and France, The Deal accomplished this initial purpose of abruptly halting for the first time the march toward stiffer Sanctions...
...liver diet in overcoming pernicious anemia (TIME. Nov. 5, 1934). Important doctors completely filled Mount Sinai Hospital's auditorium, listened decorously while Dr. Whipple, his throat raw with a cold, described how blood is formed and regenerated within the body. A significant new fact: infections do not prevent the formation of hemoglobin which the body needs to recover from disease, but. do prevent the release of that essential iron-containing substance into the blood stream where it can do the body good...