Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apply simple and reasonable tests to show how other members of the espionage ring named in the FBI report were treated, there is considerable doubt that anything was done to protect the national interest. Let me offer you a few examples...
...teeth of such hopes, Weeks proposed last week that tariffs high enough to offset "differences in domestic and foreign labor costs" be fixed on manufactured goods in order to protect "the standard of living of American labor." Professional tariff lobbyists endorsed Weeks's idea. And Pennsylvania's high-tariff Republican Representative Richard M. Simpson said: "Those of us who believe in more protection rather than less take satisfaction in Secretary Weeks's speech, especially because he is a member of the Cabinet...
...nations, extending in a vast crescent from Iceland to Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey). A budget-conscious new U.S. Administration is also not keen to take on another $250 million worth of foreign obligations. Furthermore, the U.S. is aware that Pakistan wants a strong army not only to protect itself against Russia, but against India, which it passionately dislikes, largely because of the Kashmir dispute...
...Edgar Hoover and Herbert Brownell strode into the red-carpeted U.S. Senate caucus room in Washington to answer these questions. Hoover's appearance caused a sensation. As all of Washington knows, the FBI chief intensely dislikes testifying in security cases and might not have done so except to protect the FBI against the implications of Truman's speech...
...they do protest and picket, they ought to make their handbills accurate," Mather charged. "Those leaflets they handed out under the American Legion and Protect America League seals were just filled with factual inaccuracies and erroneous references...