Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, to save their voices, the Southern Senators changed their tactics: they stayed away in droves to prevent a quorum. Majority leader Alben W. Barkley, stubbornly determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone...
...Malta. They can cover any final blow at Rommel's rear. They can launch the continuous bombings of Italy which Winston Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies in Britain and the Allies in Russia, every foot of Nazi territory...
...pants, green porkpie hat, purple tie, yellow shoes. He dislikes Harlem: too noisy. But he can't stay away from Broadway shooting galleries. He gets $3 a week for spending money, shoots most of it away. Girls he shuns because the syndicate warned him they would prevent him from becoming a champ...
First suggested by the Boston University "News," the league was to include Harvard, B.U., Boston College, Tufts, Northeastern, and the armed services. It was proposed as a means of perpetuating collegiate sports contests for the duration, by circumventing the expected ODT ban on unnecessary travel, which would prevent squads from participating in out of town games...
...hell than Huey Long." He is keeping his word--and the fire he is raising has all America in a hot spot. "The Man," as the Senator fondly refers to himself, typifies the pro-poll tax bloc. Saturday, their filibuster technique led them into hiding from the Senate to prevent a necessary quorum. That this absurd burlesque of American government was soon righted with a warrant for their arrest in no way diminishes the Axis delight and Allied dismay it must have inspired. The United States, home of democracy, fighting a war in which democracy struggles to survive...