Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging from a conference with Secretary Stimson, Admiral Pratt ordered the entire Asiatic fleet to prepare for China service. "Our fleet will be ready to evacuate our nationals or to protect them if a crisis arises where mob rule prevails." said he. A correspondent asked him what would happen if Japan did not favor the move. "That," said Admiral Pratt, "would be just...
...Immediate discontinuance of all mobilization and preparations for war. 3) Immediate recession of combatants of both nations from points in the Shanghai area wherein there were places of mutual contact. 4) The establishment of neutral zones in the International Settlement which would keep the forces separated and thus protect the Settlement. 5) Commencement of negotiations, following acceptance of the first four points, to settle all differences in accordance with the Kellogg Pact; this to be accomplished with the assistance of neutral and impartial observers...
...Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary Davidson notified the Navy in confidence, he said, but shortly thereafter Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. discharged both McDonald and Underwood, one of whom had to take refuge in his father's home in Tennessee "to protect himself...
...this point let us lake leave of the plot, trusting to the celluloid deities to protect virtue in distress to the last foot of film, and to the final fade-out, where their responsibility ends...
...Especial attention should be given to the American tariff of June, 1930--an act of almost incredible economic folly. Unlike some recent foreign tariff changes, revision of our tariff was not needed either to protect our exchanges from depreciation or to guard our gold sup plies from depletion. On the contrary, the tariff law was passed when we possessed approximately 40 per cent of the world's monetary gold and when, as has been said, we were attracting large additional amounts...