Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumor in Washington had it that the President thought FBI could better handle subversive activities singlehanded, was looking around to see whether enough votes could be mustered in the House to prevent Mr. Dies getting an appropriation of $1,000,000 to carry on next year...
Paul M. Sweezy '32, instructor in Economics, agreed with Schumpeter on this point, and added, "We must increase consumption on the part of the masses, and we must levy additional profits taxes on industry to prevent this kind of over-development of our economic society," which would result in "an American brand of Fascism and Imperialism...
...similarly split in a fight over racketeers. And the words were hardly out of Sidney Hillman's mouth when members of Congress, irked by the still unsettled strike at the Vultee Aircraft plant (TIME, Nov. 25), began to denounce "strikes against the Government," to suggest bills to prevent the organizing of workers in defense plants. A little more division and it was possible that destruction of Labor's legislative gains would be attempted...
...Murray, a quiet man who works in a quiet way, Hillman got a man he could work with in C. I. O., a man opposed to Communist union control, who would not let bitterness alone prevent healing the breach between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. This was considerable, despite Murray's first words as president ("I protest the use of Government pressure to force a shotgun agreement between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L."), despite his announcing that his first job was an immediate organizing drive in "Little Steel" and Ford...
...past six years the Department built eleven health centres and a laboratory. Last year nearly 140,000 persons were X-rayed for tuberculosis - an all-time high - and hundreds of new cases discovered. The Department helped diagnose, treat and prevent such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria. Private practitioners make ample use of the Department's laboratory service, which helps diagnose rare diseases such as parrot fever, leprosy, tularemia (rabbit fever...