Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is testified to by the fact that in all our great crises the Negro as a loyal and faithful citizen has tried to serve the nation to the best of his capacities. And yet, paradoxically enough, even his discrimination has operated to prevent him from participation...
...Hotel. Senator Bennett Champ Clark was there from Washington. Eight days before, a Republican, Forrest Donnell, had been elected Governor-in the midst of a Democratic sweep-by 3,613 votes. These politicians were practical men. They discussed a legislative investigation, on the issue of fraudulent ballots, that would prevent Forrest Donnell from taking office. Said a seasoned old country politician: "You will be the ones who are under the gun. You have a city election in the spring, while we country boys have two years to get over...
...Louis Post-Dispatch charged that the strategy by which Missouri's Democrats tried to prevent Governor Donnell from taking office had been worked out at the secret meeting in the De Soto Hotel. At any rate, the legislature refused to seat Donnell. The State's political life was thrown into unholy tumult for six weeks as Governor Stark's term expired and Democratic politicos refused to let Donnell's begin. Democratic Governor Stark demanded that Donnell be seated, the election contested afterwards. What part did Mayor Dickmann play? He stoutly denied any part in the plot...
...Hitler had to take over. The Axis position in North Africa and the Mediterranean had become desperate. The Axis position in Italy had become worse than desperate-the Italians were knocked out and ready for separate peace. Only Mussolini could prevent separate peace, and he could be maintained in power only by the arrival of the Germans in force...
...telegraphed Green to John W. Darr '41 of the Council for Democracy in Education, "there is no justification for the discrimination practised by the Academy. I extend to you the support of the American Federation of Labor in your efforts to correct the wrong which was committed and to prevent the practice of race discrimination...