Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mental irresponsibility" that saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair, to the "mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband, to the "mental incompetence'' of Jackson Barnett. rich Creek, whose oil royalties the Government tried to protect from Gypsey Oil Co., from his wife and from the Baptist Home Mission.* Dr. Jelliffe told how Banker Harriman had been examined. The banker knew the names of rivers in Europe and capitals of States, could describe certain birds, flowers and fish, could give the names of battles in the Civil...
...discrepancies made between the Regulars and the so-called "Tree Army'': The pay of a private soldier is $17.85 per month with $1.50 taken out for laundry. The soldier must pay his tailor, barber, and tobacco bills out of this amount. The soldier is sworn to protect the United States against all enemies for three years. The government expects the soldier to keep his part of the contract, and has a place for him, with a high wall around it to keep him in if he fails to keep his oath...
Last week the story of Dr. Dewing's resignation broke through the screen of rumor. He had withdrawn gold before the bank holiday, not for his personal account, but as president of Chatham Water Co., to protect a construction contract which the company had undertaken. He redeposited the gold immediately after the bank holiday ended. Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School criticized his act as having made the School subject to possible public criticism, objected to his criticisms of Administration policies. Hence Dr. Dewing's resignation. Since Dr. Dewing was guilty of no lawless hoarding, some...
...Recovery Act. That evening he was scheduled to speak to harassed soft-coal men in Chicago. When his airplane was grounded by fog at Pittsburgh. General Johnson addressed his audience by radio. He strongly urged his distant hosts to "put into effect provisions which you find necessary to protect the willing and the forward-looking among your members from the racketeers and price-cutters and those who are willing to take advantage of the unselfishness and public spirit of other...
...have read and reread with amazement your paragraph in the June 5 issue, p. 13, in which the last lines read: "They saw their deposits which they had spent a life time to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown bankster...