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Word: protecting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sponsored by a Republican organization, the group of about 40 undergraduates headed by W. Bruce Pirnie, Jr. '41, is out to protect the rights of Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, and all other recognized parties from the three to five thousand illegally registered voters in Boston whose ballots might swing the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 40 HARVARD SIX FOOTERS ARE READY TO QUELL POLL RIOTS | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...travel to watch 40,000 French-trained Brazilian troops in war games. Keeping mum on whether a U. S. or a German military mission would replace the French, whose term expired Sept. 1, he announced praisefully that Brazil's 80,000-man Army was adequate to protect her. War Minister General G. Eurica Dutra beamed, but he knew as well as President Vargas that Brazil's chief value to continental defense lies not in its Army but in its raw materials-among them, rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rubber Rebound? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...Communist Party. Suppression of minority groups even by the American Legion has no excuse. We are not at war and there was no reason for the veterans' squeeze play. Far more dangerous than the Leftist groups, whatever their fondness for vodka, is a powerful organization getting set to protect America in the manner of Hitler's storm troops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELCOME BUDDY | 10/31/1940 | See Source »

...years researchers of Chicago's Swift & Co. hunted for a chemical which would delay the spoiling of lard by oxidation and would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...akin to the "old world" than the United States both culturally and economically. We must face the fact that Latin-American countries must and will sell to anyone, even Herr Hitler. Above all, we must realize that we can aid all nations to defend themselves, but we can not protect 100,000 miles of South American coast line when we have not got a fleet large enough to protect ourselves. The Western Hemisphere is not the political, cultural, and economic unit envisioned by many Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY HEMISPHERE, 'TIS OF THEE | 10/23/1940 | See Source »

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