Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reserve to thaw frozen assets which are causing distress, particularly in Western banks, Senator Glass reminded one & all that such a plan was now under consideration by the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, warned against public expectation of too great a broadening, assured his listeners that he would vigorously protect the Federal Reserve in Congress. Messrs. Mellon and Mills tried to soothe his apprehension...
...hand reached up to graze his lantern jaw. In the fourth round Sharkey, outweighed 261 Ib. to 2021. thought of an old trick, one which would never have fooled a clever or a more experienced fighter. He hit Carnera twice in the middle. When Carnera dropped his hands to protect his body, Sharkey led for Carnera's jaw, reached it with a right hand punch that caused Monster Carnera to give an astonished grunt and collapse...
What seems an obviously hostile action, and as such war, to common sense cannot immediately be so labelled in international law. Unless the international legal code can be more strictly interpreted, it looks as if a great power could protect its interests by force at least to some extent. Failing such strict interpretation, the rule will hold that instead of two, there must be two equals "to make a fight...
General Honjo, commander of the Japanese forces in Manchuria, stroked his silky white mustachios, stated that "military occupation" of Mukden by Japanese troops was at an end. His soldiers were staying on, he explained, merely to protect Japanese lives and property...
...growing clamor of the "independent" airlines-small ones, for the most part, with no mail contracts -for an investigation of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown's method of awarding contracts to the big companies. The Watres airmail bill, under which contracts are awarded, was frankly designed to "protect the equities of the pioneer operator," a phrase which the independents see interpreted as "them as has, gets." Particularly enraged are they over the practice of granting to a big airmail operator an extension of his contract into territory where a smaller passenger line has been operating in hope of getting...