Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gulls' plight was certainly not the fault of Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. All week he labored to bring the striking seamen to terms with their employers. He got no results, but there was peace along the Pacific waterfronts because the strikers, anxious to prevent any excuse for armed intervention, had their own patrols keeping order and rounding up drunks. There was peace also because the Attorney General's office in Washington found legal reasons to excuse the U. S. Marshal in Los Angeles for ignoring a court order to unload some 4,000 stems...
Mavis Arden, a famed cinemactress on tour with her publicity agent (Warren William), has only one insterest in life, which it is his job to frustrate. The interest is men. In Washington, Mavis meets a Congressman (Lyle Talbot), makes an engagement for the next night in Harrisburg. To prevent her from keeping it, Pressagent Stevens sees to it that her car breaks down en route. Forced to stay over a country boardinghouse, she wastes no time getting down to business. She spots a young mechanic under her car, murmurs, "Look at those strong and sinewy muscles," sidles outdoors to make...
...jailed for spaying her under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...
...neurologists offered definite recommendations: "1) Our knowledge of human genetics has not the precision nor amplitude which would warrant the sterilization of people who themselves are normal in order to prevent the appearance, in their descendants, of manic-depressive psychosis, dementia praecox, feeblemindedness, epilepsy, criminal conduct or any of the conditions which we have had under consideration...
...weeks immediately previous to examinations. An even greater waste is apparent in the average man's twelve years of school spent in preparing for four such elementary courses as Chemistry A, French 2, Mathematics A, and Biology D. The result of this disregard for economy of time is to prevent a man from earning a substantial income until, on the average, he is thirty-three years old. The most obvious and practical way of meeting this problem in part, at least, is to intensify school work and shorten the college course to three years for those who desire...