Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Resolutions urging all the American Governments to prevent political activities by foreign diplomats; demanding laws against fifth columnists; authorizing the Pan American Union to call a conference to deal with subversive activities of aliens...
...desk in the oval study. The historic summer of 1940-historic if historians of the future would be permitted to write as they have in the past-mounted to its climax, as hot as the summer when the aging Buchanan decided there was nothing he could do to prevent the South from seceding and the world he had known from coming to its terrible...
Phantom Arsenals. Anxious to break down the general reluctance of the people to accept dictation and to prevent growing criticism of the Government for not restoring pre-war conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry...
Question for the Department of Justice last week was raised by the Wall Street Journal: although the Government can break up monopolies and prevent "conspiracy," can it force the fragments to compete where they do not want to? Trust-Buster Arnold took broad moral ground, made much of the disparity in size and bargaining power between the five manufacturers, the thousands of small growers. Answered American Tobacco Co.'s President George Washington Hill: "If the prosperity of an industry, the growth and successful operation of a company . . . were to be made causes for attack, then we could scarcely expect...
...apparatus to prevent windstorms from taking off roofs by vacuum suction (a falling barometer switches on a motor which raises flaps on the roof, spoiling a possible vacuum...