Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wagner places the fee of the artist before the responsibility of himself and of the artist to the public. Both Mr. Wagner and Mr. Thomas are placed in the position where they can protect themselves; the generous public who support both but which cannot safeguard its interests is left out of consideration...
From nowhere a dozen U. S. immigration inspectors closed around him, to protect him from physical violence in case any of his onetime "investors" still harbored wrath against him. They carried him off to the East Boston immigration station and booked him for deportation to Italy because he had been twice convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude. He was allowed 90 days freedom if he could raise $1,000 bail. Expecting his wife Rose to bring the bail at any moment, he refused to take off his coat and hat, refused to eat lunch. His next meal, he insisted...
Fired with the patriotic zeal of Mazzini, Sandino devoted himself to the cause of Nicaraguan liberty. When American Devil Dogs came to protect the property of capitalist adventurers, he told it to the Marines with bullets, writing bloody pages in one of the most sordid chapters in American imperialism. For five years Sandino led a band of ragged followers in guerilla warfare as Supreme Chief of the Army of Defenders of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua. "God and our mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they...
...believe that sterilization is the only means of protecting our people from idiocy," said Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. "I have seen three generations of idiots in my own Temple and there is nothing to protect us from a fourth...
...Whereas, I find, from my investigation, that, in order to stabilize domestic prices and to protect the foreign commerce against the adverse effect of depreciated foreign currencies, it is necessary to fix the weight of the gold dollar at 15 5/21 grains nine-tenths fine...