Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists...
...Orleans, is the world's biggest strawberry grower. Last year's crop was estimated at 3,500 carloads (Oregon, 2,500; Tennessee, 2,000). Last summer 200 strawberry growers around Hammond, La. got a lawyer named James Hobson Morrison to organize them into the Louisiana Farmers Protective Union and protect them from the chain stores. James Morrison took a sound truck around the State, before long had 10,000 members. By last week he had made almost every chain "kiss a pigeon"- which in Louisiana means to knuckle under, to cry Uncle...
...business is accused of considering only property rights and not human rights, but property rights are human rights--to work without the right to protect is slavery," said Clarence A. Randall '12 in the third Godkin lecture on "Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict...
Salvemini charged that the British government has adopted a policy of armed neutrality so as to best protect its own imperial interests when a war between Russia and Germany breaks out. "Hence the calculated ambiguities of the British government, aimed at deceiving, not Hitler, but the British electorate," he stated...
...noisy campaign, with the bandying of "liberty," "democracy," and the "American form of government." He remembered the crowds, the noise, and the national frenzy that rose to a fever pitch one warm November day, and then subsided. He remembered hearing that golden voice as it swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution. He remembered all these things--and then, as if in echo, he heard again, "We must take action to save the Constitution from the court...