Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powers gullible Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang had made this betrayal possible. For him, Death! In the streets of Nanking, Shanghai, Peiping students saw, read, roared: "Dadjang! Dadjang!" (War! War!) Patriots Are Patriots. Precisely because China's patriots are growing so patriotic, Japan has invaded Manchuria "to protect Japanese lives & property." Japanese apologists last week likened to Moscow's Third International the Chinese Foreign Policy Association at Mukden. They claimed that it is flooding all Manchuria with "virulent
...Collings collapsed. To protect her, her father-in-law hired Lawyer Homer Stille Cummings, onetime Democratic National Committeeman, adviser of President Wilson, counsel for James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney. District Attorney...
...Spencer Churchill, moon-faced Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, put the pound back on a gold basis. It had fallen as low as $3.15 in December 1921. If Britain's international banking was to resume shop, the pound had to be restored to its old value ($4.8665) to protect British foreign investments. So the pound was forced to par. Interest rates at London were fixed high to attract foreign deposits. A $200,000,000 credit was obtained in New York. It was never used. Britain's sheer determination to restore sterling's prestige was a chief factor...
...Miss Mary Elizabeth Epling, of Welch, W. Va.; secretly, at Covington, Va. in April. The bridegroom's mother Mrs. Henrietta Guerard Hartford of Newport and New York was sued last fortnight for $100,000 by a Miss Mildred King of Boston who asserts she was hired to protect young Hartford from a New York adventuress and received no pay for her successful efforts (TIME, Sept...
...Nice, the U. S. consul asked French police to protect Gibson Fahnestock Jr., rich, U. S. .socialite on whose yacht Shenandoah III several members of the Chinese crew had started a fight. Shenandoah III is elaborately fitted out with Oriental antiques, has a great staring eye painted on her bow. Mr. & Mrs. Fahnestock and four children are world-cruising on it. Once before, at Singapore last December, the Chinese crew mutinied, knocked down the captain and Owner Fahnestock...