Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal sense a public utility; and, quite as certainly, its activities are not such that their enjoyment can be regarded under any conditions from the point of view of an emergency. ... A theatre, of course, may be regulated so as to preserve the public peace, insure good order, protect public morals and the like...
...champion of the League of Nations before which he represented France in 1924-25. All that M. Painlevé asked of M. Paul-Boncour was that he would introduce and sponsor in the Chamber a bill proposing to spend 7,000,000 francs ($280,000) forthwith on armaments to protect the frontiers of France...
...General Duncan saw that something must be done to impress the Northern Chinese in Shanghai and the Southern Chinese who are trying to capture it with the idea that Britain has a real army in China, will soon have 30,000 men at or near Shanghai, and means to protect her interests permanently.* How could all this be better said to Chinese than by a parade of British might? Soon General Duncan ordered 1,100 British troops to parade ten miles through the international and Chinese settlements at Shanghai...
...gentleman has had a military convention with France to protect him since 1920. Until Locarno (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925, et seq.) he was trying desperately to get a similar military convention with Britain?failed. Then at Locarno he seemed to have obtained all he wanted, security...
...Austen, elevated the eyebrow opposite to that which is clamped down over his monocle, replied frigidly: "The Right Honorable member from Smethwick* must know that the right of a state to protect its nationals does not depend on 'treaty right.'" ¶ Defeated by a majority of 178 a Laborite resolution against the Government's proposal to reform the trade union law (TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes...