Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until war blew the lid off diplomacy did the U.S. learn all the last-minute moves with which President Roosevelt and his Secretary of State tried to prevent war with Japan...
Nothing that happened last week could prevent the spreading of cold rage through an already frigid spike of a man-Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler's chief executioner. For, clearly, the thousands of tired bodies he had rushed to the rope or the firing squad had not cowed Europe's revolt against Hitler's New Order...
These "restrictions," if literally observed, would prevent the press from printing virtually any war news of actions in which the U.S. Army took part. Probably the Army did not mean them that literally and the press was still too busy with the first news to give them much thought. Soon Army and press would have to reach some workable understanding on the handling of war news...
Leon Henderson for the first time made public his utter dissatisfaction with the emasculated House price-control bill. To prevent inflation he said he needed at least two powers which the House refused him: 1) power to buy & sell commodities, (to avoid the "bulk-line," or one-high-price system of World War I); 2) power to license, without which "price control is virtually impossible where the number of sellers is large"-e.g., in the retail field...
...conscription, which French Canada opposed. He never altered his own opposition to it. In 1919 he ran into the bluntest fact in Canadian politics when, as the logical successor to the late, great Sir Wilfred Laurier, he was kept from the Liberal Party leadership by a deal designed to prevent another Catholic French Canadian from becoming Prime Minister. To break the Party stalemate he threw his support to the then untried William Lyon Mackenzie King in a deal of his own. For French Canada he retained special language, education and religious rights...