Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood that Mr. Richard Washburn Child, American Ambassador in Rome, will be present at Lausanne when the conference is resumed; it has even been stated that he will be there primarily to protect the Chester claims. This, however, lacks confirmation. One thing is certain, Turkey is trying to force a wedge, in the shape of America, between herself and the Allies. It is equally evident that oil will come more to the front in the next, and according to the Turks the final, session of the peace conference at Lausanne...
...allow a decision either way. With no specific provision covering such a contingency, the insured would argue that he was relieved of any duty to do what was manifestly impossible. The insurance company would argue that the condition placed on its liability was absolute and reasonable, being inserted to protect the company from claims made long after all witnesses had ceased to be available. Courts will probably continue to disagree, and the only safe practice for the policy holder or beneficiary is to give immediate notice...
...foreign countries, and by taking the power to perform the marriage ceremony out of the hands of irresponsible people, such as County Clerks and Justices of the Peace, who will marry almost anyone at a moment's notice. Justice Morschauser advocates this reform only as a measure to protect the home and national morality, and would still allow separation, which he believes is sufficiently well provided for in the present New York State marriage laws...
...regularly that my original three hundred, though I sold a good number and killed a good number for food, mounted up to fifteen hundred in a few years. The sole cause of failure was the refusal of the New-foundland government of that day to give me the protection that I had to have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around the little peninsular on which I had them, and irresponsible schooner men in summer being able to land and shoot the deer, from whom the number of herders I was able to afford could not protect...
...plans for drying up the Mexican border have found their way to Washington. One is a request by the Federated Clubwomen of the Imperial Valley, Cal., that Secretary Hughes " close" the border at sundown to persons under 21 years of age, in order to protect their children. The other is a rumor from Mexico City, to the effect that the government is considering establishment of a dry belt 50 miles wide, along the border. So far it is only a rumor...