Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided that the Scottsboro Negroes, "young, illiterate, ignorant," had not had adequate legal representation at their original trial, were entitled to another. "Even intelligent persons," said Associate Justice George Sutherland, writing the Court's majority opinion, "cannot guide themselves through the intricacies of legal procedure and protect their rights." The opinion went further to brand the trial, with its militia guardsmen, court-appointed defense and surcharged atmosphere, as "a gesture." Kentucky-born Justice McReynolds was joined by Justice Butler in dissent...
...usual the attack was led by High-Tariff Tories. Backed by the potent Beaverbrook Press, 150 of them huddled together in a secret meeting, then rushed the Cabinet with a demand for a 4d-a-pound tariff on foreign meats (with a tuppenny rebate for the Dominions) to protect the British farmer...
...second effort to protect British agriculture got under way last week with the organization of Empire Farmers' Co-Op., Ltd., an inter-Dominion society to limit production of foodstuffs throughout the British Empire with the announced goal of raising and pegging prices 25% above present levels. Chairman of E. F. Co-Op. is that most composite Empire peer, Trevor Grant of Grant, Baron Strathspey, who was born in New Zealand, is a Baronet of Nova Scotia, lives in Scotland...
...Harvard Inquiry, which was organized last spring, is now a reality attempting to carry out the purpose for which it was destined at that time. Credit is due to the men who have fought the inertia and suspicion with which Harvard undergraduates generally protect themselves from new and radical intellectual organization. Although the Inquiry has not bad time enough to give an account of itself in practice it gives promise that it will stimulate the undergraduate to at least a recognition of the most important problems that face him as a citizen...
...parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor's daughter. Julian's father falls foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland...