Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft coal strike, was supplemented by miniature offspring called Regional Labor Boards of which 18, with some 250 voluntary members, now exist. Their job is to sift labor complaints on the spot, turn back trifling ones to NRA Compliance officers, hold hearings on others, try by conciliation to prevent them from growing into strikes. When a case cannot be settled locally it is passed on to the National Board. But even that agency cannot force arbitration. When an employer is accused of violating the collective bargaining provisions of the Recovery Act, after a Regional Board has failed to get compliance...
...describe the disconcerting effects which this questionnaire will have upon those who receive it, for these can only too easily be imagined. Although it is impossible to undo the damage which these lurid broadsheets have already produced, it is strongly to be hoped that authority will make regulations which prevent literature of this type from ever being distributed again. Whitney N. Morgan...
...Dean's office has acted sensibly and tolerantly. For the benefit of the press it has pronounced the affair "unauthorized" and has expressed a kind of mild indignation by taking a meaningless step "to prevent its further dissemination." For the benefit of the Critic, it has ordered, semi-officially, that the statistics gathered must not be fed to the general public. That is all, but that is intelligent and enough. University Hall is covered...
...flyers persuaded Mr. Roosevelt to act quickly. But when he recommends that the pending legislation be passed at once, the Chief Executive may also have been wrongly advised. For the bills which have been drafted at the request of the Post Office Department would, as they now are worded, prevent the re-establishment of air mail service in America...
...just as Farm Mortgage Bonds were guaranteed two months ago: 2) ordered the Census Bureau to tabulate the citizen and alien population of New York City by blocks as basis for reapportionment for the State Legislature (a blow at Tammany) ; 3)announced that he would favor a law to prevent party officials, government officers and Congressmen from lobbying for government contracts, and also to outlaw professional lobbyists from similar employment...