Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed a $5 per barrel tax, required brewers to take out a $1,000 Federal license. Re-enacted was the old Webb-Kenyon law to protect Dry States from Wet Shipments...
Paul von Hindenburg swore eternal fealty to the Hohenzollern Crown-yet permitted himself to be elected President. Elected and reelected, he twice swore as President to preserve, protect and defend the Republican Constitution, Article 3 of which reads: The national colors are black- red-gold...
...statement issued yesterday reads: "In regard to enrollment in the Houses, it has been expressed as a general principle that the less expensive rooms ought not to be given to graduate students to the exclusion of undergraduates. The aim is to protect the interests of the undergraduate members for whom the Houses are primarily intended. It is naturally desirable and gratifying that members of the Houses should want to continue in residence as graduate students. But limits are necessary in order that the interests of the undergraduates may not be prejudiced, either as to the price or number of rooms...
...State and its dressmaking industry, employing 50.000 women, was the most "sweated" trade. Unscrupulous employers, with a labor surplus at hand, had battered wages down to the Chinese coolie level. In many a sweatshop the "U. S. standard of living," which the textile tariff is supposed to protect, had declined to a point where workers could subsist only with the help of charity. Girls were sleeping in subways because they could not earn the price of a bed. Hospitals were filling with women who had worked themselves into a state of collapse for a pittance...
...many prints of ships had been carefully packed and dispatched to Washington in Army trucks, along with trunks of clothes, boxes of books, bales of papers, crates of furniture, cases of knicknacks. Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from thighs to shoulders. Mrs. Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor, had been engaged as White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan...