Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have fought an unending war, carried on an unceasing campaign to protect the nation. . . . Many of these battles have had to be fought in silence, without the cheers of the limelight or the encouragement of public support because the very disclosure of the forces opposed to us would have undermined the courage of the weak and induced panic in the timid. Hideous misrepresentations had to be accepted in silence. . . There has been much of tragedy but a great national victory has been achieved¯President Hoover at Des Moines...
...shall now say the only harsh word I have uttered in public office. When you are told that the President has sat in the White House without troubling to know your burdens, without heartaches over your miseries, without using every ounce of strength and straining his every nerve to protect and help, without putting aside personal ambition and humbling his pride of opinion, then I say to you such statements are deliberate, intolerable falsehoods.?President Hoover at Fort Wayne...
...white-haired Banker Stuart heard that the Blaine-made storm was about to break. In selling $13,500,000 worth of Wardman bonds the house had sold $200,000 in the Senator's home state, thus making possible a "use of the mails to defraud" charge. Anxious to protect his firm from the criticism which is aroused by any legal action, Mr. Stuart hurried to Washington, asked President Hoover to intervene. He was referred to Attorney General Mitchell who refused to act. Returning to Chicago, he prepared to face what he felt sure was a "frame-up," an action...
...Harlan and Bell Counties. The circumstances are substantially the same: miners refuse to work for oppressively low wages; owners, faced with a labor crisis at their own boom period, hire substitutes, who are attacked and prevented from entering the shafts; as a last resort the militia is evoked to "protect lives and property...
...forms of popular government are built on the theory that an enlightened citizenry is able to choose for itself the officers who will make and enforce the laws which the people must obey, and protect the people to the greatest possible extent against physical, economic and other evils. If this theory is not sound, democratic government must eventually collapse. I believe that this theory is sound. What we need to do in order to improve all forms of popular government is to increase by every possible means the degree of enlightenment of the people regarding public affairs...