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Word: prevents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for new smoking and lounge rooms for Law School students in Langdell Hall appear to be suspended for the present as lack of funds prevent the remodeling desired, declared Acting Dean Morgan yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lounges for Law Men Must Wait for Funds, Says Morgan | 4/21/1937 | See Source »

...construed so as to operate within the spirit of constitutional authority. . . . "Employes have as clear a right to organize and select their representatives for lawful purposes as the respondent [Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.] has to organize its business and select its own officers and agents. "Discrimination and coercion to prevent the free exercise of the right of employes to self-organization and representation is a proper subject for condemnation by competent legislative authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Four 5-4; One 9-0 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...idea has been advanced that this is legislation intended to prevent strikes and thereby prevent impeding commerce. Let me read a few lines from the Act itself: 'Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impede or diminish in .any way the right to strike.' So I think we may start with the idea that the Labor Board Act is not one to prohibit strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Four 5-4; One 9-0 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...player's contract expires and the . . . club owner submits a new contract... the player must either sign the contract... or he is forever barred from playing organized baseball. . . ." Since the existence of organized baseball depends on the existence of some form of agreement between club owners to prevent the richest club from hiring all the best players, few baseballers hoped that Representative Cannon's appeal would do much to improve their status. Last week, the U. S. Department of Justice found in a 1922 Supreme Court decision written by Oliver Wendell Holmes grounds for not conducting the investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: New Season | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...Douglas Aircraft Co. at Santa Monica, Calif, last week climbed a standard Douglas DC2 transport with a few subtle changes in wing design. When it landed again after buzzing back & forth over the Tehachapi Mountains for several hours, Douglas officials revealed that they had devised a satisfactory way to prevent the unique icing of ailerons which caused the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 fortnight ago near Pittsburgh (TIME, April 5). Chief Engineer Arthur E. Raymond merely added a few inches to the underside of the wing in front of the slot where the ailerons hinge on. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: De-ice Device | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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