Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measures, to correct existing evils. ... A revolutionist differs from a radical in believing that the change will be convulsive and violent, and also in believing that a dictatorship will be necessary. . . . When a reactionary advocates drastic changes in the status quo, and proposes to set up a dictatorship to protect these changes (from revolutionaries!) then the reactionary becomes a fascist. You cannot fit Roosevelt into any of these categories. He is, by elimination, if in no other way, a liberal...
...murder, assault, and general repression of miners' tendency to join John L. Lewis' U.M.W. was disclosed last year by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee (TIME, May 3, 1937). At issue also was the question whether a Federal statute enacted just after the Civil War to protect Negroes from Ku Kluxers could be invoked to reenforce the National Labor Relations Act with criminal penalties. The act of 1870 makes conspiracy to violate any constitutionally guaranteed right an offense punishable by fines up to $5,000, imprisonment up to ten years. Inasmuch as the Wagner Act is a civil...
Most of Zanzibar's 15,000 Indians used to be in the clove business. As they prospered, they became moneylenders to the natives. Then, in the first year of Depression, the price of cloves fell and they foreclosed mortgages, became landowners. The Sultan, partly to protect his subjects, partly to repay the Resident for advice, set up a Clove Growers' Association consisting of the most substantial of Zanzibar's Englishmen. The association's powers were great: It has an export monopoly and it bought at its own price; Indians could go on dealing within the island...
This meant that the Roosevelt good neighbor policy at last faces a severe test -and one brought to a crux by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Under the Monroe Doctrine it is not permissible for Britain to intervene with arms and protect her interests in Latin America, but the same doctrine also carries an implied obligation that the U. S. must keep Latin Americans from doing anything that might be considered provocative by Europeans. Thus if Honduras should order every Lithuanian within its borders decapitated, Lithuania would expect, while keeping the Lithuanian Navy at home, that the U. S. Navy & Marines...
...Considered licensing all companies doing interstate business. SEC proposed the idea to protect investors from a number of abuses it has unearthed in various corporate reorganizations and to counteract a general laxity of corporate law in certain States. Alternate proposal: use of taxing power to make more difficult incorporations under the statutes of these lax States...