Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest she gave to curious Edwin Krenn. Upon him she had depended entirely in her fading years. She forced him upon Chicago society, planned with him a $45,000,000 empire of realty. Last year she had to sell $18,000,000 in securities to protect her small householders. The faithful Krenn threw in his all?$1,260,000. Her brother John was said to have guaranteed her $1,000 a day for life, but neither he nor his father could swallow Krenn...
...ideas which Foreign Minister Uchida did not voice in his formal address but which other Japanese, nearly as potent politically, called to the world's attention. For a fortnight foreign correspondents had heard rumors that Count Uchida was about to formulate a "Japanese Monroe Doctrine.'' claiming the right to protect all Asia "from Suez to Kamchatka," except American & European possessions, from Western aggression, and that the originator to be cited for this idea was none other than the late great Theodore Roosevelt. Editors were unable to find any trace of such a doctrine in T. R.'s writings or biographies...
...population of the United States. I believe in the sacredness of private property, which means that I do not believe it should be subjected to the ruthless manipulation of professional gamblers in the stock-markets. . . . "I propose an orderly, explicit and practical group of fundamental remedies. These will protect not the few but the great mass of average American men and women who, I am not ashamed to repeat, have been forgotten by those in power." The Roosevelt remedies: 1) "Every effort to prevent the issue of manufactured and unnecessary securities brought out merely to enrich those who handle their...
...foot on the floor. . . . Although I didn't succeed in getting into the platform a plank for insurance of bank deposits in banks which are members of the Federal Reserve system, I intend to work for such insurance, if elected. I propose to fight for an adequate tariff to protect the oil industry of this State. Twenty-one cents per barrel is wholly inadequate...
...manifestations of this peculiar sensitivity. By testing various substances on the patient's skin, allergists find just what he is sensitive to. From that they prepare an extract with which they very often can immunize him. But immunity to the pollen of one group of plants does not protect against the pollen of another group. A cured hayfever does not prevent migraine or hives. The tendency to allergy is inherited...