Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Halifax who, when they go to Italy this month, are reported planning to visit the Pope and to entertain the Cardinals at the British legation in Vatican City. They know, as does the U. S. State Department, that if the democracies are obliged to set up a bloc to protect their interests from fascist encroachments, the Roman Catholic Church may be a useful ally, not only as a powerful church but as a temporal state with one of the ablest diplomatic corps in Europe. As Franklin Roosevelt well knows, in Washington hard by the British Embassy, a palatial building...
...torpedo boat Protet was ordered into the Black Sea to protect French nationals from Bolshevist attacks. One day the Protet was ordered to fire on Russian towns to break Red morale. Second Officer Mechanic André Marty persuaded his fellow sailors to refuse to bombard defenseless citizens, threw his superiors in the brig, hoisted a red flag in sympathy with those on shore. For his mutiny André Marty was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, of which he served three...
...differs from all of them in that it is the only country of the lot in a position to lend money heavily and sell industrial products. About the only things which the 21 nations have in common are their location in the same hemisphere and their anxiety to protect themselves against the growing disturbances on the other side of the world...
...Manhattan the Screwballs of America, "a new society to protect the right to laugh," met for their first national conference in the 35th Street excavation of the unfinished Sixth Avenue subway, appointed President Roosevelt their patron saint, cabled Adolf Hitler: "If the sound of laughter is ever heard in Berlin, run for the nearest border...
...packing industry's grand hotel is Boston Financier Frederick Henry Prince, who is board chairman of Union Stockyard & Transit Co. (and of meat-packing Armour & Co.). Mr. Prince's bawling, squealing, baaing guests might have been unhappy indeed had not Chicago police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager Orvis T. Henkle. Negro...