Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these ideas President Hoover stoutly resisted and on one occasion Secretary of State Stimson, as the islands' onetime Governor General, marched to the Capitol and told Congress to stop plaguing the Philippines. In Manila last week Secretary Hurley recalled these Ad ministration efforts to protect the Philip pine market, declared: ''We've been some what confused amid these victories by the [Philippine] cry for independence. It seems hard to believe your people really want a tariff on products and it is difficult to carry on the battle if one is not sure...
...view of one part of your resolution I desire to make it perfectly clear to you, however, that I shall not under any circumstances carry out the above intention [resignation from the Commons] while it involves desertion of duty which I consider to be imperative to protect the great masses of wage earners...
...formed a large percentage of his estate, which was left in trust to his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, afterward Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham. A curious provision of her will, filed after her death in 1917, provided that the administrators could use the income from the estate to protect the railway and the Flagler hotels for a period of 21 years...
...National Bank, President George Willets Davison of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. Also present was Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board. They conferred on "the general business situation." Two reports immediately developed: 1) the President was planning more banking aid to Europe; 2) he was arranging to protect mortgage issues from speculative manipulation...
Judge. Tammany's effort to protect its own now looked hopeless indeed. A last appeal for Dr. Doyle was made to Chief Judge Cardozo. For all practical purposes Judge Cardozo is as far from Tammany's reach as is Chief Justice Hughes from Scarface Al Capone's. Scholarly, liberal, a creative as well as an interpretative force upon the bench, he is always one of the first jurists mentioned when a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court of the U. S. When the question of Horse Doctor Doyle's immunity came to him in the homely old study...