Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment when the Nazi legions were marching to the East and to the West, at the moment when Benito Mussolini was watching his troops practice protecting northern Italy. Premier Edouard Daladier of France went to Metz to inspect a 125-mile section of the chain of secret underground fortresses and tunnels that will soon protect the French frontier from Belgium to the Swiss Alps. This section took five years to build, cost $100,000,000. Said M. Daladier...
...might also mention the "social" clubs which for many constitute an absorbing interest. To members these represent excellent opportunities for making lasting friendships and associating with others having the same thing in common. To those on the outside the clubs may appear as mutual backslapping societies organized to protect the congenitally incompetent from their intellectual superiors. There are the kindred activities of house committees and class politics, engrossing but perhaps meaningless because of disuse...
...announced War Lord Feng unblushingly soon afterward. "I should have been humiliated to meet the League Commission. ... I am one of this country which, though it boasts a population of 450,000,000 cannot safeguard its territory or protect its people, but instead begs the League for assistance. If this is not disgrace then what is disgrace in this world? . . . Also it is to be regretted that the League Commission spent so much of its time sight-seeing instead of devoting itself to its mission...
...forward if we can get the new deal that President Roosevelt has promised: increasing the Cuban sugar quota here and reducing the tariff on sugar." Digging in at Havana. During the week President Roosevelt withdrew from Havana harbor the two U.S. destroyers Claxton and Taylor which he sent "to protect American lives." Secretary of State Hull said
...rolls. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were liberally represented on most boards. ¶ Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect the lives and persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister to Jugoslavia. ¶ After a week in Washington, President Roosevelt planned...