Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow, now the headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Chinese felt safe last week because many Soviet war planes flown by expert Soviet pilots had arrived to protect them. The Russian aces, large, square-headed fellows of the surly, close-mouthed type seen in Leftist Spain, kept rigidly to themselves, but Chinese never doubted they would go up and do battle at the first Japanese air attack...
...residents of Tsingtao were sternly advised by U. S. Consul Samuel Sokobin that they must not join German, British and Russian residents who were busy recruiting a group of some 250 white vigilantes armed with clubs to protect each other's lives and property as best they could. While the Sokobin "good neighbor policy" was pursued by U. S. citizens, the white club-wielders dashed about Tsingtao in groups of five, cracking the crown of every yellow native they suspected of looting. Tsingtao by this time looked from a distance like one great smoking pyre of chaos, but after...
...last Circumstance came to the aid of the Vagabond in the form of an insurance agent; he was a friend of the family and, like most agents, he wanted to protect the lives and property of all his relatives. He suggested in his bland, almost unctuous way that the Vagabond be provided with an accident insurance policy; thus, when he got hurt or killed, there would be money to cover the situation. It was a brilliant idea, worthy of the high ideals of material civilization; the family embraced it quickly, and the Vagabond was bundled off to be examined...
...first encounter on December 28 with the Westchester Rangers, Captain Traf 'Hicks' overtime goal gave Harvard a 5-5 tie. The Crimson was unable to protect their second period three goal lead...
...guard against regimentation and bureaucratic unfairness, the Guffey-Vinson Act established a Consumers' Counsel (at present Senator Couzens' onetime Secretary John Carson) whose duty it is to protect the public. So far he has had about 200 complaints to present to the Commission. Most publicized came from the Association of American Railroads which last week asked that the new price schedules be delayed for further study because they mean a $20,000,000 added annual burden to the greatly depressed U. S. railroads. B. C. C. refused. In case coal prices begin to get out of hand...