Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading aggressively into the stormy problem of protection for political minorities (viz. German communities in Poland), Germany's solid, monkish Stresemann had announced that he was not satisfied with the Council's treatment of minority questions, would appeal to the World Court and the League Assembly for a...
"We sent troops into Shantung because the lives and property of Japanese nationals there were in danger. The emergency is over now and we have the solemn assurance of the present government that our nationals will be given adequate protection." Hotly did Baron Tanaka deny that, as most Chinese Nationalists...
These mills had been reopened in the face of the union strike (TIME, April 15 et seg.). Their German managers demanded and received military protection from the State. Machine guns bristled on the plant roofs, manned by young Guardsmen, many of them students from the University of Tennessee. Some 800...
Defense. When debate opened in the House, the bill's principal author, Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, gave a three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then...
Tennessee's Cordell Hull alone harked back to the old Democratic dogma of "tariff for revenue only." The proposed increases he said would cost the country 175 millions per year. His Democratic colleagues, pledged to protection at the Houston convention last year and by their presidential candidate, sat silent.