Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coal & Iron Police of Pennsylvania have been for years a cause of fury to union labor and organized liberals. Recruited to protect corporate property, their strong-arm work has on occasion become nationally notorious. Crowning brutality occurred two years ago when three Coal & Iron policemen quarreled with one John Barcoski, Polish miner, while he was on his way to work. They beat him, bent a poker over his head, left him dead. Two of the officers were convicted of manslaughter...
...Passed a bill withdrawing 376,000 acres of public lands in the Owens River Valley to protect the Los Angeles watershed...
...case of the disturbances after the hockey games a hand full of men have presumed to conduct themselves publicly in a fashion that discredits the good name of the University. It now remains for the great mass of undergraduates to protect their own rights and to silence the disorderly with the most effective of weapons, adverse public opinion...
...protect the life" of ex-President Arosemena the successful revolutionaries appointed four of themselves a "Tribunal of Honor," to keep a keen eye on him lest he stage a countercoup...
...farmers' stock yards more than they do now. Mice are over plentiful now because their natural enemies (snakes, herons, hawks, owls, foxes, weasels, skunks, shrews, turtles, bullfrogs) have been killed off. Mammalogist Hatt declared that the best way to control the U. S. mouse supply is to protect their natural enemies...