Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even now it is admitted that individuals and small concerns generally lack sufficient capital to carry on a protracted legal battle to protect what they regard as their rights. The proposed legislation intends to make prohibitive what was improbable before. It is the small stock holder in public utilities who is the chief sufferer as T.V.A. plans are being carried out, and it is the small business man who finds the N.R.A. particularly oppressive. It requires little imagination to see the administrative statisticians conjuring up a fantastic loss from the hypothetical "sale of power," plus extravagant legal charges. An "adequate...
...theme is "Protect sweet little mountain lions" and "Only man is vile." Children and dumb adults are supposed to rejoice when the lion mutilates a human and causes his death...
...Republicans have maintained throughout the Roosevelt administration that prosperity should return through the normal channels of recovering industry, that no government agency should give it artificial stimulation. But now that Roosevelt is making an effort to protect industry while administering relief, they oppose him. Instead, they would have a relief wage so high that it would take labor away from industry, that would, in fact, give relief, jobs preferment over private capital...
...Bedad, it's to protect the men!" roared Senator Gogarty...
...that the fire department had come to the fire with insufficient hose to reach the plug, and that by the time they had sent about the city to collect ample hose it was too late. My family had paid taxes on that house for 50 years to procure fire protection, yet in the only fire we have had, your department, through inexcusable carelessness, was unable to protect me. What redress will the city offer me in the way of freedom from further taxes to offset this calamity which has happened to me? I would like your reply before I take...