Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There followed the Golden Age at the Metropolitan, with such singers as Nordica, Pol Plancon, Fremstad, the de Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that...
Counselor Joseph Cahill, exhaustively analyzing whole mountains of sources, concludes that present French prosperity rests on four primary bases: 1) Stabilization of the franc by Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, an achievement now nearly two years old (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927); 2) Protection of French industries by the present tariff; 3...
Harvard, however, has been too consistently free from major injury of late years, and strikingly so in the season just passed, to owe her good fortune to the mere workings of chance. Few are the squads that can boast a broken finger as the most serious accident to any member...
The appeal was heard in a cell to give Assassin Toral every protection from a howling mob outside the jail which wanted to lynch him. At the expiration of the hearing, the three Supreme Court Judges majestically departed giving no indication of whether or not they would permit Toral'...
In the exercise of his profession, he is curiously without legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for...