Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital to the U. S. Not only would this force France off the gold standard, force down the value of both franc and pound, but it would destroy every trade advantage that the U. S. has gained from the cheapening of the dollar in foreign exchange. Only way to prevent this is by buying sterling and francs as fast as those currencies are sold by Americans who want to bring their money home. Instead of allowing the hundreds of millions of U. S. capital abroad to be brought home, the Treasury will in effect have to take over that capital
...bill, the political repercussions might have cost the Governor his reelection. A Democratic defeat in the nation's key-State next November might change the political complexion of all national Democracy, especially since that State is the President's own and its Governor his good friend. To prevent such a catastrophe, State Chair man James Farley let it be known last week that he was building a new Democratic organization in New York City...
...Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only made blind flying simple but two years ago led the Army to require it of every flyer in the service. Congress appropriated $1,000 to buy up his patent...
...pointed out in this column several days ago. Mr. Roosevelt will be put in an impossible position if the Revolutionary party of Senor Guiteras is allowed to carry out its aims, chief among which is the confiscation of foreign property. The only possible solution is to prevent the Revolutionary party from winning in the civil war which will probably follow the present crisis. Nothing, of course, could be more helpful to the conservatives than prompt American recognition of the government of Colonel Mendieta and the American moral support which that recognition implies. While there are indications that Colonel Mendieta...
...this system is once established it will never be destroyed, because people will not try to obtain what they can not have. To prevent such attempts it may be necessary for the government to own all industry. The NRA is a small step toward the desired goal, and I hope it succeeds, but I do not believe in magic...