Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Senator Pepper would predict with finality is the fate of vindictive efforts in Congressional Committee to quash the whole of Labor: "It's obvious that the liberal Republicans and the Democrats are joining to prevent antiunion measures. Of course there will be legislation, but we are trying to make it reasonable and rational. We'll succeed in Committee. On the floor I don't know...
Skirting the fundamental deficiencies which prevent the House Plan from fulfilling its design, the University's $6000 allocation to each House for permanent physical improvements nevertheless represents a concrete step toward conquering the epithet of "glorified dormitories." The stated purpose of the expenditure is to "improve the livability" of the Houses and make men residing in them feel that they belong to an institution of educational fellowship--with more to offer than room and board. While few harbor delusions about the extent to which a $42,000 outlay can revitalize the House Plan, this is at the same time...
...under greater pressure than ever from their followers to bring home increased wages. Only the threat of another round of strikes which might be disastrous to the future well-being of their organizations; with Congress showing increased signs of readiness to swing a big axe at the unions, would prevent these leaders from asking for an increased share of industrial profits. Management, faced with another boost in the cost of labor, would again be tempted to raise prices correspondingly, and another inflationary jump would be under...
What should be done to make the nation's press better? The Commission on Freedom of the Press (see above) charted 13 steps toward "freeing the press from the influences which now prevent it from supplying ... the service which the country requires." Its recommendations...
...Bock declared that cases in this vicinity have been few and mild, but he advised early action to prevent an outbreak of the kind that is currently taking place in the Middle West...