Word: protection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Representative Blanton of Texas got the floor. After a characteristically long-winded beginning, he said: ". . . Have the citizens of this land become so helpless that they have to have Grandmother Linthicum from Maryland walk around with them to protect them from poisoned alcohol...
...speaking of sporadic disorders but of cases in which the Government itself is unable to function. It is a principle of international law that under such circumstances another Government has the right, I will not say to intervene, but to interpose in a temporary manner to protect the lives and interests of its nationals...
...next meeting. The clause causing the difficulty states that the Council has the power "To prohibit any man who shows an indisposition to respect the recommendation of the Council from becoming and remaining a member of any college activity subject to open competition, in order fully to protect the rights of the undergraduate body...
Besides "waging peace," the Navy would wage neutrality. Despite their martial preoccupations, Navy men are students of U. S. trade. They know that if other nations war, the Navy may be called on to protect the neutral rights of U. S. merchantmen. About merchant shipping they point...
...disrupt the relations between workers and employers, are they not destroying goodwill? "The most important right is the right of use, for without use, property may be valueless," said Col. James Augustan Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers. "This bill would say to industry: 'You can protect your plants and your physical property, but you cannot protect the use thereof...