Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvements, and in these past two years all that we have done has been to accelerate that program. . . . No sensible person is foolish enough to draw hard and fast classifications as to the usefulness or need. Obviously, for instance, this great Boulder Dam warrants universal approval because it will prevent floods and flood damage, because it will irrigate thousands of acres of tillable land and because it will generate electricity to run the wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five-foot brushwood dam across the head waters of an arroyo, and costing...
...sinister significance. Neither James O'Connor Jr., nor any of the many friends and champions and advocates of Huey P. Long's policies were ever regarded by him as "henchmen." He looked upon them as devoted friends who were doing their utmost to aid him in his struggle to prevent the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a relatively few and for its redistribution among the masses of his countrymen who he thought had earned that wealth...
...President named eight men to sit on the National Bituminous Coal Commission and Bituminous Coal Labor Board, shortly before a coal strike they were powerless to prevent broke (see p. 14). ¶Turning in his commission as Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Joseph Patrick Kennedy of Boston prepared to sail with his wife to put one of their sons in the London School of Economics, a daughter in a Paris convent. He said he was "out of politics . . . for the rest of my natural life." On the President's say-so, the other SECommissioners elected as Chairman Kennedy...
Porgy and Bess, so named to prevent prospective customers from regarding it as a revival of the play, begins with droning "Do-doo-da's" interspersed with "wawa, wa-wa." Catfish Row will be on view, with its dilapidated tenement fronts, its old street lamps, its "Gawd-fearin women" and its "Gawd-damnin' men.'' As in the play, the crippled beggar Porgy drives his ribby goat, hunched in a cart made of packing box labeled "Wild Rose Soap, Pure & Fragrant." The whoring Bess again finds shelter and love with Porgy after the bullying Crown commits his drunken murder...
...Ormsby Bliven, Jr. '37, of New York City, has been unanimously elected to succeed Douglas P. Dryer '36 as president of the Liberal Club, it was announced last night, following a meeting of the organization. Dryer submitted his resignation yesterday, explaining that the pressure of studies this year would prevent him from fulfilling adequately the responsibilities of the office...