Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed shop or the checkoff, strikes where grievances have not been presented in advance, strikes accompanied "by continuous and systematic acts of violence and intimidation," strikes in violation of contracts, strikes "to prevent the use of materials, equipment or services." Another N. A. M. thought: "Government should protect the right to engage in lawful strikes by lawful means, but its primary obligation is to protect the right to work...
Chinese built the 450-ton Panay, designed especially to protect U. S. shipping from Chinese river pirates on the Yangtze. She was launched at Shanghai in 1927. Last week she lay in the river at Nanking, taking off U. S. Embassy secretaries, Standard Oilmen, correspondents, cameramen and other U. S. citizens who had dared to stay on until the last moment before Nanking's fall (see col. 2). Her job done and shells coming far too close for comfort, the Panay moved away, anchored beside three Standard Oil ships in a more peaceful spot, 27 miles upstream from...
Britons on the North Sea coast remember that only 20 years ago they were tumbling from their beds to dash for crude shelters as warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
...against soldiering on the part of the 1,778 counters and officials whose salaries, ranging from $10 to $30 a day, finally ran the cost of the count to a staggering $850,000. And although P. R. was adopted last year as a reform measure to enfranchise minorities and protect them against Tammany domination, it had not only disfranchised that 16% of the voters who could not understand the ballots but had given the Democrats, snowed under by 450,000 votes for Fusionist Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the mayoralty race, a majority of 14 of the council...
While it is true that a certain amount of natural decomposition is hard to prevent, it is a well-known fact that such poisonous chemicals as lead arsenate and sulphur dioxide are widely used to preserve fruits, the former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think...