Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of War Stimson added a significant footnote. Said he: "The only way I know to prevent these attacks is to mass our forces in offensive action and carry the war to the enemy." And that, he said, is exactly what the U.S. means...
Daybreak was greeted by a ship's boy ("on the same principle as having family grace said by the youngest child") with the singing of a hymn. Further similar hymns were sung at almost every half hour of the day. But piety did not prevent the sailors from becoming terrified as the voyage went on, from plotting mutiny and the murder of Columbus. Only the landfall at San Salvador in the Bahamas prevented some kind of outbreak. Nor did piety stop the "white gods" from swindling, kidnapping, murdering and raping Indians before they had been a month...
...classified as conscientious objectors in the first draft have decided to take an active part in the war. Raymond G. Dennett '36, member of the Advisory Committee for Student Conscientious Objectors, stated yesterday. He added that between 30 and 35 registrants had originally signed as objectors, but incomplete figures prevent an accurate estimate of the number...
...After isolationists filibustered to prevent...
...full production. Labor insists on its share of the benefits of full production, and it wants to get them through industry-labor councils. After the war, Labor will be more interested in full employment than in a share of the profits. The unions will claim their right to prevent Industry from ever again operating below capacity for a profit. They will insist, and keep insisting, on the Murray plan...