Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven assistants rushed back, gibbering with indignation. Assistant Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Swiss Composer Ernest Bloch, scraped the white paint off two second-story windows to form the words: "Workers Unite," "Help! Protect Rivera M. . . ." Guards stopped her from finishing the word "Murals." By nightfall Communists began to swarm in Rockefeller Plaza, the new thoroughfare cutting through Rockefeller Center. They churned about, cheering for the man whom they had read out of their party four years ago, waving banners "Save Rivera's Painting," marching & countermarching around the RCA Building. Mounted police pranced on the outskirts, shooed them away before...
...mortgage-burdened farmer plowed, harrowed and seeded 40,000,000 acres of good wheat land. The seed sprouted. The farmer returned to pass long winter evenings by his radio, leaving the care of his crop to the climate that God should provide. But snow did not come to protect the seedlings from the cold and or rain did not fall to give them moisture when they needed it in spring. When the farmer went forth in the early May sunshine, instead of finding his flat fields covered with a lush green growth of young grain, he found the soil...
...have decided among themselves that the opening battle of this hypothetical war will be fought about a district known as the Five Hills. The Five Hills overlook a natural undefended harbor. Held by U. S. artillery they would prevent the landing of Japanese troops. Held by Japan they would protect her base. The Five Hills are just far enough from the U. S. frontier to give Japan a fairly even break in a race from...
...trying to digest his proposals for banking reform and farm relief. President Roosevelt last week sent still another legislative request. "As a further and urgently necessary step in the program to promote economic recovery," read the President's nth special message to Congress, "I ask for legislation to protect small home owners from foreclosure and to relieve them of a portion of the burden of excessive interest and principal payments incurred during the period of higher values and higher earning power...
...than any other world nation. Last fortnight the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague clinched Denmark's claim to all Greenland, 50 times as big as Denmark (TIME, April 17). Last week like a small dog that has just buried one bone. Denmark whirled bristling to protect another...