Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City Committee of the National Woman's Party passed a resolution of protest against unfair sex discrimination by the police in a recent raid on a dance hall in Manhattan. After the raid, the women dancers were arrested and imprisoned overnight " to protect their morals." The men were "shooed off " without having their names and addresses printed by the newspapers, as were the women's. Said Mrs. Marcus M. Marks: " The story was printed all over the country and then no more done about it. We don't understand how the papers could...
...surprising to discover that Graduate School freshmen are actually as green as college freshmen are reputed. No one would suspect a Law School student of attempting to dodge the hard work obviously necessary for training a lawyer. Nevertheless, in order to protect the embryo Mr. Tutts from the fraudulence of note-sellers, four professors have had to resort to a court injunction against the most prominent offenders...
...enlisted men protest that Mr. McCarl, in effect, overrules formal naval orders. Mr. McCarl replied in a letter to Secretary Denby: " There was no authority in such Administrative powers as are given the head of the Navy Department to issue an order annulling a request of this office to protect the fiscal affairs of the United States...
According to Secretary of War Weeks, the flight had a great military importance. It proved that with two days' warning the Air Service could concentrate in Porto Rico an air fleet which would effectively protect the Panama Canal against attack by any enemy fleet approaching it from the Atlantic...
Leacock and his friends are loyal Canadians. During the past two years, they have built up a Canadian Authors' Association which, starting originally to protect copyrights, has developed into a pleasant social organization, and one which takes a great interest in book propaganda. To their efforts must be credited the original success of the delightful Maria Chapdelaine. It was a relief, the other day, to sit down with Mr. Leacock and some of his cronies in Montreal. A relief, because one no longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel...