Word: prevents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Merriam to sign or to veto. A hundred chain store men, 900 independents, with bands, banners, slogans marched on Sacramento, packed the Assembly chamber, booed and shouted when the Governor held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able to pay, a tax on efficiency of distribution. "We have all lived long...
...such anti-Communist world forces as exist. Though Comrade Dimitroff has had no experience in directing a revolution, he has fearlessly fought Nazis and he does have spunk. This last week caused some Moscow wiseacres to guess that Dictator Stalin, famed for weeding out spunky subordinates, might intervene to prevent Dimitroff's election...
...post-War treaties which they have not yet officially broken, Austria and Hungary teem with assorted illegal armaments, but neither could put in the field forces strong enough to cope with the Little Entente. That job, shrewd Zita thinks, will be taken on by the Great Powers to prevent just such a general war as Dr. Benes envisioned. In snug, smug Habsburg circles last week chances were considered better than good that, if Otto is first proclaimed merely Regent in Vienna, the Great Powers will keep the Little Entente in check, promising to let them act if attempts are made...
...firm's Cleveland headquarters and takes a hand in its management. Last May he called on President Tew. Was Otis & Co. going to get a slice of the new financing? No, replied Mr. Tew, it was not. Then, said Eaton, he would move heaven & earth to prevent the plan from going through...
Otis & Co. marched into an Akron court and, by virtue of owning ten shares of Goodrich stock, got permission to inspect the books of Mr. Tew's company. Then it began rounding up proxies to try to prevent approval of the new first mortgage at a special stockholders' meeting...