Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About two years ago she was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, with five other union organizers, on a charge of inciting to insurrection, based on a law of 1861 designed to prevent a slave rebellion. These "Atlantic Six" are now out on heavy ball. Because of Miss Burlak's deflant challenge to the existing order, and the support she is able to win from her audiences, she has acquired a fairly thorough knowledge of the United States penal system, and mention of her name produces a startling effect upon any member of a "radical squad...
...peak railroad year of 1926 Westinghouse Air Brake made $10,000,000. A Mellon (Richard K.) sits on the board but even the Mellons could not prevent the company from losing $600,000 last year. So far this year railroads have ordered about 13 times as many freight cars as they built or bought all last year, and Westinghouse is once more in the black. Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger...
...hundred thousand to subscribe to this year's Irish Sweepstakes. In the closing hours of last week's conference of the Conservative Party, up rose Sir William Henry Davison, a fellow member with Atholl of the swank Carlton Club. "Ordinary citizens," he cried, "resent the Government's attempts to ... prevent them from having a flutter. . . ." (Cheers.) Before the party leaders could collect themselves, Sir William shouted his motion: ". . . The Government should give facilities for a national lottery." Aye! And up went hundreds of hands. Nay! A feeble...
...freedom and organization, he goes back 100 years, writes a history of political change from 1814 to 1914. No believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many a downright unusual opinion. Of Metternich (whom he calls a pompous prig) he says: "His fundamental political principle was simple, that the Powers that be are ordained of God, and must therefore be supported on pain of impiety. The fact that he was the chief...
...Small wonder than confidence languishes for it thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live." (Why did the President sign the Frazier-Lemke Bill, and why did he issue an edict to prevent an individual holding a ten dollar gold certificate from receiving ten dollars in gold upon demand? Or isn't such a note a "sacred obligation...