Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first reason ascribed for intervention was humanitarianism of a Whitman's-burden nature; conditions in Haiti were bad; "anarchy, savagery and repression" prevailed, and troops went in to clean up. Second, the State Department had been pressed not only to protect American interests already in Haiti but to allow these interests--notably the National City Bank--to, extend their activities. Last, we did not want any foreign power intervening in a land that was so near the Panama Canal; the Monroe Doctrine, as it had been reedited, covered any action on the part of a foreign country to protect...
...little more than three minutes old when Garrison chalked up a score for Harvard. Putnam's shot had drawn Learnard out of the goal and then with the cage wide open Garrison skated down and dumped the puck in. With a one goal lead Harvard was content to protect its slim advantage but soon had two of its men occupying the penalty box. With only Stubbs, Crosby, and Cunningham on the ice the former college stars tried hard to score but their shots in most instances were wild...
...with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able to protect the Mayor's good name for her sake...
Moscow children under 16 were forbidden, last week, to attend the ancient Douglas Fairbanks cinema Don Q, Son of Zorro "to protect their immature minds from the contamination of its bourgeois ideology...
...losses through kidnaping robberies. Robber-kidnapers go to the home of the bank cashier, or other official, compel him to accompany them to the bank, to open the safe for them when the time-lock runs out. By the payment of a small extra premium, banks and businesses can protect themselves from such kidnap losses. National Surety Co. also wrote last week a suicide policy, said to be the first of its kind. A manufacturer (unspecified) wished to borrow $25,000 from his bank. As the business depended largely upon the well-being of the borrower, the bank wished...