Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's claim to be a state capable of keeping law & order, even totalitarian law & order, clearly hung by fewer threads than ever. Only five Rumanian divisions and a German force of less than a division remained to prevent anarchy. That was not all Antonescu had to worry about last week. German Ambassador Baron Manfred von Killinger was reported to have told him: "A situation might arise when Rumania will have to face the menace of a Russian invasion...
...that retraining has been shoved ahead, the ERC may be left in college in order to prevent a let-down in the use of college facilities. All rumors of universities where students have received their orders continue to break down upon investigation, and one can only be sure that any student who prematurely severs his connections here will be called, while the undergraduate returning after his exams might find that he has secured his sheepskin before he was fitted to a uniform. He might also find himself in training by the third week of February...
Order 9250. In its simplest terms, Jimmy Byrnes's job is to rivet a lid on civilian economy that will prevent an uncontrolled inflation from breaking out. In the words of Executive Order 9250, he is directed to "formulate and develop a comprehensive national economic policy relating to the control of civilian purchasing power, prices, rents, wages, salaries, profits, rationing, subsidies and all related matters"; and is given the absolute power to order any Government administrator to carry out the points of that policy...
Fateful Six Months? That is the crux of Jimmy Byrnes's task: to prevent these loose, jangling dollars from cracking the nation's economic life wide open. As of this week, he hoped to attack it with a pay-as-you-go tax plan and compulsory savings; an attack in which he would need all the help the 78th Congress, convening this week, could give...
...Specifics. To keep the world family healthy, Wallace suggested a far sharper program than he presented in May: >For the international unity that is a requisite of peace, the United Nations will need 1) machinery to keep aggressor nations disarmed, 2) machinery to prevent economic warfare, 3) "probably" an international court to settle disputes, 4) a world council, "so that whatever world system evolves will have enough flexibility to meet changing circumstances as they arise." >To achieve international liberty, regional problems should be left in regional hands. "The aim would be the maximum of home rule that can be maintained...