Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claims that the recent outburst is "more than a tempest in a teapot" resulting from the local politicians' desire to protect their system from the inroads of the type of scientific municipal government recently sponsored by Dean Landis in the Plan E charter referendum...
Concerning the recent Munich agreement, Dean Matthews was very emphatic. "I feel strongly that American comments on the recent four-power agreement are based on a misunderstanding of the situation," he said. "To say that Chamberlain betrayed" Czechoslovakia is to assume that England had a particular obligation to protect her, whereas she had no more obligation than did the United States...
...dynamic personnel manager of Marseille's largest and showiest dry goods store, Les Nouvelles Galeries, bearded M. Frichet recently succeeded in persuading the owners to protect the lives of clerks and customers in their gaudy firetrap by ordering a modern sprinkler system. The gossiping Marseille plumbers and their helpers were maddeningly slow; but by last week they had put in all the pipes and sprinkler heads, promised by this week to get the system connected to the water mains...
...Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon of Boy Scouts to protect the emblems. Last week Newark's Postmaster John J. Sinnott gave way, removed the seals and replaced them with white marble stars. Said Postmaster Sinnott aggressively: "And those stars don't mean anything in particular...
This was the clash of wills which Editor Smith had to reconcile. Last week he announced success: Longshoreman Harry Bridges and colleagues accepted a city-wide agreement; the employers accepted a classification system to protect the union's present status in each warehouse...