Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, these charges stirred Georgia to resentment against outside criticism of its race relations rather than to clean-up action. Said the Atlanta Constitution: "There are no better people in Georgia or in any other state than those . . . in Jefferson County. . . . There should be some way to protect such communities from the calumny of literary tumble-bugs...
...knows, Father Ramsay became "the Judas of the Labor Party" when King George induced him to act as the figurehead Prime Minister of the present National Government. Laborites in his own home constituency of Seaham jeered Scot MacDonald fortnight ago and police reserves had to be called out to protect...
...Senators Borah and Nye wrote him protesting that NRA was driving small businesses to the wall and turning trusts loose on a career of price fixing. To be sure, they appealed to the President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power to protect small businessmen, to restore some of the teeth in the anti-trust laws. To be sure, the Trade Commission at General Johnson's invitation sent a man to watch the code making. But nothing happened. So last week, with Congress solidly in session again, Messrs. Borah and Nye went...
...ending the suspension of the anti-trust laws. Said he: "I do not think there can be any compensation for unjust prices charged to the public. I do not think there can be any compensation for the destruction of small business. ... I do not believe it is possible to protect [the small businessman] so long as we permit these combinations in restraint of trade, so long as we permit the great combines to fix prices...
...forced to choose between two highly disagreeable courses, for if he intervenes in Cuba he will destroy all the good will which he and Mr. Hull have been so carefully building up, and if he does not intervene he will put himself in the impossible position of refusing to protect the sanctity of English property in this hemisphere and preventing that country from doing it herself. So no matter what he does he is sure to be doubly damned. The only possible way out it to move fast in Cuba and restrain the government down there. This is a task...