Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even a great flood could not, however, prevent other matters-of government from occupying the President's time...
...drastic expedient which the Socialist Premier has adopted to dissuade, although it does not prevent, French capitalists from shipping funds abroad in another "flight from the franc" likely to lead to devaluation, is the recent law forcing the French to divulge to their Government whatever funds they have abroad. This they passionately hate, for to the logical French mind it suggests that, once the Government knows what foreign funds its citizens have, the day will come when, under pretext of "emergency," these will be forcibly obtained pour la patrie...
Says Ex-Senator Watson of Senator Norris' unsuccessful fight in 1910 to prevent the re-election of "Uncle Joe" Cannon to the Speakership and the readoption of the Reed Rules under which he operated as Speaker: "George W. Norris had been a judge, and always a man of industry and ability. Uncle Joe and I had just campaigned in his district, and we were all on the friendliest terms...
...prize of "Moscow's Most Remarkable Confession,"was the confessing by all hands last week that Adolf Hitler's apple-cheeked Deputy Nazi Party Leader, Rudolf Hess, also went to Oslo, where Trotsky was of course guarded at all times by Norwegian secret servicemen to prevent his fomenting plots, and conferred with the Great Exile in detail. Red Trotsky & Nazi Hess were supposed to have agreed that, after Stalin had been assassinated, Germany was to get the Ukraine and Japan Eastern Siberia, with the headline-making addition last week that Japan be given the island of Sakhalin from...
...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...