Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...westerners, had left a bad odor in voters' nostrils. So the 300 delegates reconsidered, settled on "Progressive Citizens of America," with Kingdon and Davidson as cochairmen. From Henry Wallace, who had yet to make a go of it as an independent, the amalgamated left got its keynote: "To prevent the Republican Congress and the laissez-faire big businessmen from leading us down the high road of boom, bust...
...first chance in fourteen years to deal with the nation's problems in its own sweet way. Its first target is likely to be organized labor and the U.M.W. in particular. Even in the unlikely possibility that the coal strike is expeditiously settled, there will be the desire to prevent its repetion...
...bidder, Dallas Gasman J. W. Crotty, who had bid $127,500,000, saw more than WAA blundering in all this. Well aware of the lobbying by railroads, coal operators and John L. Lewis' own U.M.W. to prevent the lines from being used at all, Crotty charged that WAA had prevented conversion "for no cogent" but for some "sinister or political" reason...
Observers were waiting for Giannini to augment the power of love with a version of the Black Shirts or the Storm Troopers. After last week's election he ordered formation of political "action squads" to prevent similar Communist gangs from breaking up his meetings...
...third in the world. Located just below the timber line on the edge of a community of houses maintained by the Climax Molybdenum Company for mine employees, the observatory is directly on the Continental Divide and the peak of the observatory roof, which has a unique conical shape to prevent snow gathering, forms the water shed between the Atlantic and the Pacific...