Word: protect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speedily the President made reply. He recalled that in his inaugural address (TIME, Dec. 10) he had pledged himself to uphold the right of free speech and therefore could not muzzle the buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...
...These national humiliations and other disheartening matters confront us for solution, and they are not easy to solve. Our great responsibility is to maintain and protect the legacy of our ancestors and to hand it over intact to our descendants...
...During the Chinese Revolutionary War, recently won by the Chinese Nationalists, a Japanese interventionary force occupied Shantung ''to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists" and has remained in occupation ever since. With scant or manufactured provocation, this Japanese force attacked a Nationalist Army at Tsinan, the Capital of Shantung (TIME, May 14), thus seriously embarrassing for a time the eventually victorious. Nationalist offensive...
...Hubbard is accusing me of doing with Lincoln as Rupert Hughes did to Washington, he not only is far from the truth, but he is as ridiculous as one hastening to protect the Washington monument from being assaulted with a fly-swatter. If he can read into that speech an anarchistic attempt to destroy or bring under contempt an institution in our history and language, he has a surprisingly tabloid mind for one who would seem to be painfully Bostonian...
...board would immediately rise in all the boarding houses in Cambridge and many men would be forced to pay a price which they could but ill afford. To avert such a disaster is for the interest of a very large number of students and if they desire to protect themselves their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed and it is certain that a new steward will be selected who will avoid the blunders of his predecessor...