Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction that the nature of this change ... is that each State shall be given the right to deal with the problem as it may determine, but subject to absolute guaranties in the Constitution of the United States to protect each State from interference and invasion by its neighbors, and that in no part of the United States shall there be a return of the saloon system. . . . Sufferings. "Today millions of our fellow-countrymen are out of work. . . . Many millions more ... are haunted by fears for the future. No man with a spark of humanity can sit in my place without...
Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...
...week the offer was boosted to $22,250,000 in cash & securities. Richfield's three committees of bondholders indicated that they approved of the offer but wanted a 45-day option. During this time it is expected that Cities Service may also make a bid in order to protect itself. Cities Service holds much Richfield common and preferred which would probably have no value if the Richfield bondholders accepted Mr. Sinclair's bid. Shell Union was also reported preparing a bid and Standard Oil of California, probably anxious to keep new competition away, was thought likely to raise...
...members and officers of local unions we decided these charges involved the honor and integrity of the Federation. . . . The Federation itself cannot take affirmative action against a local union officer but .... The Federation is pledged to go the limit in purging itself of racketeering. . . . Our policy is to protect members from racketeering in any form, even to the extent of suspending an international union which has failed to act on proof of wrongdoing...
...speech: "There is no such law as the unwritten law. . . . Our legislators do not say : 'This is the law but we will not annoy the governor by writing it down.' ... A woman's honor is her own and the shortest word in the English language will protect any woman's honor, and that word...