Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that did not prevent the American Piano Co. last week from suffering a sudden glissando into the hands of receivers (Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., appointed by Judge Alfred C. Coxe). The petitioners were W. D. Byrnes, Inc., a Manhattan trucking concern, who in presenting a bill for $7,000, declared that the company's property was valued at $3,689,000. that its current and unpaid liabilities were $1,200,000, that its property assets could not be immediately realized without great sacrifice...
...assumption that it lies within the power of the high school coach to prevent the impending catastrophe is rather a reversion of cause and effect. The secondary school has long favored mimicking the college so far as athletic policy is concerned. It is rather unfair for the big brother to accuse his adoring relative of the fault of overemphasis when he has been an erring example...
...lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...carnage reigned, the U. S. has exercised a virtual protectorate over Haiti. Under a 1916 treaty, U. S. armed forces are in the republic for three purposes: 1) to protect U. S. lives and property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European creditor nations from interfering in Haiti's affairs. In 1919 occurred an uprising against the U. S. which Haitians claimed cost 3,500 lives. In 1922 Louis Borno became President; in 1927 the Haitian Parliament dissolved...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, president of the party, was detained in her Paris home, could not attend the convention. She sent the delegates a cablegram. In return, they re-elected her to office. Her absence, however, did prevent dedication of the new party headquarters on B Street, to which the feminists moved from their ''little capitol" building, condemned to make way for a new supreme court...