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Word: protectionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among many Southern hill sects this Biblical injunction has caused violent dissension. Conservatives hold that a believer who accidentally tromps on a snake will be protected by the Lord. More radical brethren consider it "phenomenal doctrine." They catch and baptize snakes drape them over their necks and arms with only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Paralyzing Prayers | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, issued a hurry-up appeal to the world to unite for self-protection against the atomic bomb. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, he observed that "brotherhood ... has suddenly become a condition of survival," guessed that if the late Wendell Willkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Notions in Motion | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Grace Moore's recent spleen on faithless wives of overseas servicemen [TiME, Aug. 6] just barely deserves the dignity of a reply. Nothing is so pitiful as a woman maligning her own sex, and at a time when womanhood should stand together for protection from those who think in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

With the murders came a rash of rumors, cranks and pranks. A note pinned up in a public lavatory boasted about the murders over the signature, "Slasher Evans." A young Detroit girl received a phone call threatening her life. One fearful insomniac sought police protection because he heard mysterious noises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Crime Wave | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

For centuriesthe fat greasy rulers of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli had maintained s gang rule over all Mediterranean shipping. Rather than provoke these fierce Barbary pirates the maritime nations of Europe patiently paid protection money in a steady tribute of jewels, gold, ships and gunpowder. When the youthful U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbary Gang Buster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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