Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report: "Despite the occurrence of isolated instances of labor disagreements which appear to have received undue prominence in the press, there is every evidence of an increasing determination on the part of both management and workers to develop voluntary methods for the adjustment of labor difficulties and thus to prevent production stoppage...
...doubtful how much starving millions could do against a giant war machine that mows down well-fed and comparatively well-equipped armies. By withholding food from conquered democracies, these people claim that we force Germany to feed her own population and to feed her subject peoples as well to prevent the outbreak of disease. Germany would then have to burn her candle at both ends and might be forced into a difficult position. With no qualms about cruelty, however, Germany would never allow such a condition to affect her effort to any large extent...
...older and slower and less acute and more confused. However, as long as ... I am able to answer in my place, I must stay on the Court in order to prevent the Bolsheviki from getting control. . . . The only hope ... is for us to live as long...
...Grand rights" permit the performance of "part of a show including both song and dialogue." "Small rights" cover individual musical selections without dialogue. Since ASCAP controls only small rights to its music, it can't prevent patches of musicals from being aired. But nobody knows exactly where grand rights begin and small rights...
...threaten American democracy even if we were victorious. But America's most pressing responsibilities lie among our own people and in our own hemisphere. We advocate hemisphere cooperation and defence in accordance with these duties as our best service to democracy and to the world. We favor measures to prevent profiteering in the crisis, and we are against any encroachment on social gains...