Word: protectionism
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...