Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangers which will threaten his country after the war, will be "a fanatic believer in equality." Though he will be willing, in times of peace, to let salaries and earnings exceed $25,000 a year (for he believes in equality of opportunity, not of rewards), he will endeavor to prevent the growth of a caste system by demanding really effective inheritance and gift taxes and the breaking up of trust funds and estates. Once every generation, in effect, wealth would thus be redistributed. This, Dr. Conant warned, "cannot be lightly pushed aside, for it is the kernel of his philosophy...
...radical will be generally against Statism; he will favor greater decentralization of governmental authority, though he will "be ready to invoke even the Federal Government in the interests of maintaining real freedom among the masses of the population." But he will want to strengthen local government in order to prevent his old enemy, the Federal power, from increasing every decade. To this end he would even work for a reduction in the number of States so that "new areas, fewer in number and more nearly equal in population" might constitute stronger units of local government...
...sure, the military and civil delegates of the Atlantic Powers will not go to Italy with the purpose of setting up a Soviet Republic there. As long as they are there, they will no doubt, prevent the Communists from carrying out coups de main against the other political groups...
...order to prevent abuse of either plan-whether by debtor nations failing to put their affairs in order or by creditor nations erecting tariff walls, etc. to prevent payments in goods-it would be necessary for the international stabilization fund to put pressure on the offenders. The necessity of doing this, said Dr. Anderson, would force the fund to become "a supernational Brain Trust to think for the world...
...that the enemy generals kept their soldiers fighting by promising them that there would be an evacuation by sea. Along the coast are signs in Italian and German that say: "Concentration Point." These are like the signs that the British put up at Dunkirk to concentrate the soldiers and prevent them from overcrowding the embarkation jetties. Everything was perfectly organized to make the Italian and German soldiers think that they were going to be evacuated-except that there was no organization to evacuate them...