Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telegraphing [dummy-voting] and ballot-stuffing machine that worked to perfection. The old gang is back." Mayor-elect Houde's first move was to let it be known that he plans to form a new Conservative party of his own to be called the National Autonomist Party "to protect the interests of cities and towns against rural domination...
...bridled a bit at first at the precautions taken for him by the Secret Service. But the only Secret Service charge completely to defy the organization to date is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. She stead fastly refuses a bodyguard, although her son James's family has one to protect her grandchild...
...when France marched in and occupied Fez. As last week, Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis was supposed to be involved. Only 100 mi. from Ifni, where the former warship Delphin was theoretically bound last week, is the harbor of Agadir. There in 1911 anchored the German warship Panther "to protect German interests." For many days war was very close...
...those who were shrewd enough to support the Nazi party with handsome subscriptions in the days of its infancy. A case in point was the appointment of Dr. Krupp von Bohlen as Leader of the first group. Even that cherished Nazi ideal, abolition of department and chain stores to protect small shopkeepers, was quietly shelved under L. 0. U. G. E. Only one fact gave Dr. Schmitt pause last week...
...Mussolini blamed the heavily-armed nations for their failure to disarm, but under Article Eight of the League of Nations Covenant in the Treaty of Versailles, nations can only be forced to disarm to that point where they are able to protect their national safety, and this point varies according to the wishes of each nation...