Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dave Beck not only dominates western labor; he dominates great chunks of business as well. He sees himself as a kind of self-appointed price-wage czar. With deadpan audacity he has used his power to prevent cutthroat competition, to punish price cutters, and to help firms with teamster contracts make a safe margin of profit...
...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
...peaceful techniques began to work, the goons vanished almost as magically as they had appeared. Beck declared himself the foe of strikes and promised to prevent them-a promise which has gone virtually unbroken for almost a decade...
...long it would stay closed was something else again. On an inspection tour of his Chester, Pa. assembly plant, Automaker Henry Ford II reluctantly agreed that "the new pay boost is probably inevitable. I don't think anything can prevent...
...makes only two things unconstitutional: 1) "the setting up by law of an official church"; and 2) "discrimination between religious bodies." The founding fathers, said the bishops, were God-fearing men who knew that "national morality cannot long prevail in the absence of religious principle." They never intended to prevent "free cooperation" between government and organized religion. Any contrary interpretation is "an utter distortion of American history...