Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made this assertion in a statement as a Senate Judiciary subcommittee summoned its first witness to testify tomorrow at hearings on legislation to prevent the sale, gift, or loan to any foreign power of any radar of electronic equipment or plans...
WASHINGTON--The State Department said tonight it was without "legal authority" to prevent the sale to foreign powers of about 90 per cent of this nation's radar material...
...your attitude that is doing so much to prevent people from realizing that jazz has real musical value. You want to think that hot jazz fans are immoral alcoholics, taking those reefers out of their mouths just long enough to take another slug of gin. It makes a much better story, no doubt. . . . When you print material on jazz, you should carefully consider whether or not you are unconsciously slanting it toward what the public (that foul-minded public) wants to hear...
...citizen was not alone in sacrificing. Britain, Canada, even abundant Argentine set in motion plans to tighten their citizens' belts, increase their food contributions to prevent a world tragedy (see INTERNATIONAL...
...been rewritten. The old freedom of thought, conscience and expression is assured. The M.R.P. tried to strengthen this with a specific guarantee of freedom of the press (not contained in the Third Republic's Constitution of 1875). But the Communists and Socialists refused, ostensibly to prevent the re-emergence of the Third Republic's notoriously venal newspapers...