Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from becoming "dictator of this country," and they asked the public to help by writing Washington. Whatever Lewis' ambitions, there was little in the Southerners' citations to support their charge. Wrote Columnist Dorothy Thompson, after reading the ad: "There ought to be something like the SEC to protect ... the public against consciously fraudulent or misleading statements . . . that demand political action on the part of the public...
...Andrew's willing ships the Germans were making landings at Kisamo Bay and all along the western tip of the island, while the British Fleet had apparently withdrawn-an admission not only that it was unable to keep off the seaborne enemy, but that the warships could not protect themselves from air attack. This was the most clear-cut -and for the British most disheartening- circumvention of and triumph over sea power by air power in World...
Indignant that one of their members, a colored singer, Drue King, Jr. '43, was not permitted to accompany the group on their recent southern spring trip, the Harvard Glee Club last night passed by a 50 vote majority a resolution to protect its members against future racial discrimination...
...would have to use a larger part of our immediate manufactures to supply our own Army. We would have to use a larger part of our air production to defend our own coast cities. We would have to at once increase our protections for the Pacific Coast and our island possessions. . . . We would have to hold merchant ships in reserve to carry troops to protect them. . . . We would have to use our light naval craft to convoy and protect our own sea lanes, especially in the Pacific...
...very interesting item appeared in the papers which does not a little to explode the crying need for convoys to protect our aid. (I am aware that the attitude expressed in the editorial had not yet arrived at accepting convoys.) Rear Admiral Emery S. Land, chairman of the United-States Maritime Commission, stated the following in a letter to Senator Vandenberg: of all the vessels sunk between January 1 and April 30 only 12 of 66,782 gross tons cleared from United States ports; of these 12 only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below...