Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must go on to assure ample credit at fair rates to the farmer who has to borrow money. We must protect REA co-ops by safeguarding and using the preference clause and by assuring them adequate funds for transmission, generation and distribution. We must conserve the greatest asset we have inherited-the soil . We must strengthen the agricultural conservation program and the Soil Conservation Service, restore the role of leadership to the conservation districts, restore the administration of agricultural programs to farmers, and take emergency measures when needed to prevent another dust bowl...
...paid anti-Communist informer (1950-54), who once observed: "I don't even trust myself." Matusow had testified that an Assistant U.S. Attorney had coached him to testify falsely at the 1952 trials of 13 second-string Communist leaders. "He didn't lie to protect himself," summed up U.S. Attorney Paul W. Williams. "He lied to implicate others, to destroy our judicial system and to discredit persons and Government agencies fighting the Communist menace." The sentence: five years...
...some Virginia legislators expressed private doubts as to whether the legal web they have spun will hold up for long. But if these bills fail, Virginia is quite ready to think up others. "Virginians," said U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, "are deliberate, even slow, in coming to drastic measures to protect their rights under the federal constitution. But when they do, they are in for the duration...
...been to the meaning of democracy. Perhaps the best relevant definition was posed by a question asked by Frederick Douglass in 1889. He inquired in the African Methodist Episcopal Review whether "American justice, American liberty, American civilization, American law, and American Christianity could be made to include and protect alike and forever all American citizens the rights which have been guaranteed to them by the organic and fundamental laws of the land...
Regardless of who won the 1952 election, the nation's loyalty and security programs were ripe for a thoroughgoing revision by the end of the Truman Administration. Disorganized and handcuffed by continuing Congressional investigations, hiring procedures were uneven and inadequate to protect the national security...