Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret exceedingly that circumstances will prevent me from attending the 55th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor," President Roosevelt, fishing in the Pacific, radioed William Green at Atlantic City last week. "I request that you express my regret to the convention and that you will convey to them my hope and confidence that your meeting will be successful and rich in accomplishment...
...Peace. With that idea which dreamy Socialists hoped would prevent the bloodshed of 1914-18, the same delegates last week proposed "in any imperialist war we call upon President Green to immediately call a general strike of all workers affiliated with the A. F. of L." But all they got out of William Green was a pious phrase: "Under no circumstances whatever must we be drawn into this European...
Howard has always been a tiny self-sufficient world, in many ways as provincial as in the days of the Red Coats and Tea Parties. While physical limitations will always prevent it from being a large world, provincialism can be avoided. President Conant has discovered the first tool, the prize fellowships, and a few figures will disclose their effects on the geographical enrollment...
...drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That is, her own Fascists of the Croix de Feu, which has no connection with either Mussolini or Hitler, must raise their own standard under Colonel François de la Rocque and prevent the Socialists and Communists of France from turning the French Government and the League of Nations against Italian Fascism. Thus for the first time was seen the spectacle of Fascists screaming for Peace...
...direction of the court, Publisher Rounsevell was acquitted (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week Defendant Rounsevell went on trial again-this time for an editorial stating that the commanding general of the Canal Department was incompetent to investigate his subordinates. The prosecution demanded that an example be made to prevent "future sadistic libels." The jury agreed. When the court sentenced him to pay $500 or spend 90 days in jail, Publisher Rounsevell's face clouded. It brightened quickly when the court suspended sentence, put Publisher Rounsevell on a year's probation. With three other libel counts against him almost...