Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newest blow to his cherished isolation, Senator Nye termed the presidential statement "a splendid evidence that we are inviting ourselves into another European war." That his statement is illogical will not have much bearing on the real issue, for there is still a large number of persons who would "protect themselves by closing their eyes," as the Post so aptly put it. But by his statement he has helped to define the issue as one between realistic, constructive policy and wishful thinking...
...Foreign manufacturers would then pay less for raw cotton than U. S. manufacturers. So let import quotas be imposed on textiles to protect the home market, and offer further subsidies to domestic manufacturers to help them compete in foreign markets...
...change, in one short week she turned her back on a longestablished policy of no military commitments in Europe east of the Rhine-turned, whole-elephant, and guaranteed that the British Fleet, along with the French Army (and the combined Air Forces of the two nations) would fight to protect the States of Eastern Europe from further Nazi aggression...
...goes to board in a nest of lower-middle-class sparrows: a voluptuous ex-chorus girl and her 17-year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals than a warning to intellectuals who think they are hawks...
...regulate it, can be played on margins as low as 5% instead of the 40% now required for stocks. Biggest inducement is that the Government, with its powers over the banking structure and its large trading operations in its own securities, can and does rig the market to protect its issues, which private financiers are forbidden...