Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that "extreme instrument" in the Roosevelt tool bag, the Securities Act, Sir Josiah chuckled: "They designed it to protect investors but in their enthusiasm Congress so framed it as to make it impossible to draw up a prospectus so as to raise money...
...announcement of the University that it considers the question of parking place closed leaves matters at an impasse, satisfying to no one but the garagemen. One thing, however, is clear: apparently Lehman Hall believes that it has a heaven sent duty to protect and further the avarice of Cambridge's leading profiteers, and it closes its eyes completely to the exorbitant prices which they charge. Consequently, at this time, the garage owners are still battening off the students, and stretching out grasping tentacles to encircle those who balk at such extortionist tactics...
Coach Jack Carr is using a green ping-pong board as a miniature soccer field to demonstrate new plays to the Varsity squad this year. It is a much photographed brainchild of Carr's and is provided with specially-made wooden frames to protect the corners from injury...
...agreement [as the armament standstill] being reached," cried Mr. Baldwin, "will have no friend in this civilized world!" To reassure France further, he invoked the Locarno Treaty of 1925, negotiated by Britain's Sir Austen Chamberlain and France's late great Peace Man Aristide Briand to protect the Franco-Belgo-German frontier against aggression. "What Britain has signed she will adhere to!" cried Mr. Baldwin. "She adhered to her signature regarding Belgium. . . . Her signature and her agreements are sacred...
...sister's stepson, potent Sun Fo (son of China's "George Washington," the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen) and Premier Wang Ching-wei. These three, according to the Chinese NEC law gazetted last week, will have "power to improve economic conditions, control and plan productive enterprises and protect the interests of workers." Just how they would do this Dr. Soong & colleagues were not quite sure last week, but they thought they might start by imposing some sort of code on China's cotton mills, predominantly owned by Japanese. "Both employes and employers who refuse to abide...