Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtaining world peace. And on the heels of this comes the announcement that several American diplomats are convinced that another European war is brewing. They attempt to soften these dire prognostications with the pious opinion that the United States will never be drawn into such a conflict excepting to "protect her honor...
...eight years natives of Zululand, Union of South Africa, have been killing off wild animals to protect themselves from sleeping sickness. The slaughter has threatened some African animals with extinction. Dr. William Reid Blair, director of the New York Zoological Park, sent a protesting cable last week to C. F. Clarkson, chairman of the Game Advisory board of Natal. He urged the adoption of more scientific methods in the control of sleeping sickness. Similar complaints have already been made to South African authorities by Kermit Roosevelt and President Madison Grant of the New York Zoological Society...
...Robert Clynes who began life humbly in a workingman's cottage and is now Home Secretary of His Majesty's government, delayed his arrival at the castle almost as long as possible. Tradition demanded his presence in the anteroom of the Duchess' bedchamber at the moment of delivery to protect the public's rights, to see and certify that the baby, possible heir to the throne, really was the Duchess' own, not a changeling...
With the Nationalist troops which normally protect central China withdrawn to defend Nanking from the advancing Peking war lords, a raggle-taggle army swept down on the river city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province, and laid it low. Correspondents were unanimous in describing the Changsha looters as a Communist army. Only such precisians as the U. S. State Department put the word in quotation marks. For although it was probable that avowed Communists were among the bandits, they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city...
Picadors' horses must wear protective pads, to protect the spectators from unseemly sights...