Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday. Once again the Harvard executive, undismayed by his august audience, laid his cards on the table. He believes that the Axis powers, which threaten "our way of life," must be beaten at all costs, even at the price of an American armed force to protect England and defeat Hitler. It was a reiteration of his stand last fall that the question of when to send troops to Europe is a matter of strategy, nothing more, nothing less...
Although magnesium is plentiful in nature (it occurs in sea water), it is difficult to extract and fabricate, requires a special coating to protect it from corrosion and combustion. Arnold's indictments charged that patents on these processes had been used to set up monopoly control. Named chief co-defendants with Alcoa and I. G. Farbenindustrie were American Magnesium Corp. (half owned by Alcoa), which is the chief U. S. processor of magnesium, and Dow Chemical Co., which in 1927 developed a native American process for extracting the metal from Michigan brine wells...
Thus, effective regulation of child labor must await the passage of the Child Labor Amendment- to give Congress the power to protect children not under the wing of the commerce clause. It has been waiting a long time. Since 1924 the battle for State ratification has proceeded painfully against organized opposition and unorganized indifference. To date only 28 of the necessary 36 States have joined the humanitarian line-up. The Amendment has been fought all along the way by the propaganda and high-pressure lobbying of powerful interest groups. But a nation-wide poll conducted in 1937 gives a majority...
...Justice had jerked off his skullcap. Mr. Hughes stated the oath and the President repeated the worn, full, old words: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...future." A flashbulb popped like a shot. The wind came in stronger gusts. The President: "Democracy is not dying." The nation's body must be tended, the nation's mind informed, but the spirit of America, the American faith must be preserved at all costs. To protect and preserve "the sacred fire" of that spirit everywhere in the world, he called the U. S. to muster, to go forward "by the Will...