Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign from office. . . . The Constitution provides for the Secretary of State to succeed the President when there is no Vice President. . . . It will place the responsibility of running the Government on one party and prevent a stalemate...
There was little that Harry Truman could or probably would do to prevent this assumption of power. He could lay about him with his veto, and the Republican majority alone would not be strong enough to override him. But Mr. Truman said he would not follow such tactics. If the Republicans would work with him he would work with them. The major conflicts might well come within the Republican Party. In any case, the Republican legislators, led by Martin, Vandenberg and Taft, will have the task of guiding the nation for the next two years, at least...
...Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, Robert J. Watt, International Representative of A.F.L., Senator Elbert Thomas, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, and Ewing Cockrell, New York attorney, in a statement last week also called for universal disarmament, denounced as absurd international machinery designed to prevent only atomic armaments...
...before Pearl Harbor, Pulitzer Prize Novelist John P. Marquand remarked: "These are hard times for a writer to find anything to write about because the world is changing so fast that any contemporary subject is likely to be outdated by the time it is published." That didn't prevent him from writing the best-selling So Little Time. Nor does it now keep him from using the very confusions induced by a fast-changing world as the theme of his new novel, B.F.'s Daughter. It might well have been called So Little...
...make things even more interesting, the pressure of hour exams will prevent the first team from working together as a unit all week, since five or six Varsity players will be excused from every remaining session before the squad leaves for Hanover on Friday morning in order to study...