Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter maintains that the Yard Police is "intricate, smooth-running, and effective." It is certainly intricate and may protect University property, but it has failed to solve many cases which an intricate and smooth-running organization should...
...four days he and his 2,000 men-stiff-fezzed Askaris and undrilled Danakil tribesmen, backed by a battery of moun- tain artillery mounted on camels-had made the most spectacular forced march of the entire Ethiopian campaign. To protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number...
...goods. In 1930 Mr. King was succeeded as Prime Minister by Richard Bedford Bennett, and under his Conservative Administration Canada began to follow the same Depression policy that the U. S. followed under President Hoover: piling up tariffs and trade restrictions to protect her shrinking home markets from imported goods. In 1933. when President Hoover retired. Canada bought only $210,000,000 of U. S. goods, sold only $185,000,000 of goods to the U. S. Not until last month, when Canada's Liberals were returned to power, was Canada in a political position to reverse her policy...
House librarians should apply the same solution to their problem of bookmarking. So far they seem not even to have used idle threats, far less to have taken action to protect their meek charges...
Most Italian reporters seem to fit into the bargain the Dictator offers them: "You eulogize my Dictatorship and I protect your jobs." As to foreign correspondents, the longer they remain in Rome the more they lose their impartiality. Some turn sour and smuggle out whatever they can smell against Fascism. Others settle down sweetly to write as if on the staff of a supereditor who happens to be directing not only all the newsorgans of Italy but all Italy...