Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declined to take at face value President Wilson's pronouncements of an idealistic national purpose. Right or wrong, they insisted that the country had been driven into the fight for selfish economic reasons. Bankers who had made large military loans to the Allies were charged with seeking to protect their investment. Industrialists whose factories already hummed filling foreign munitions contracts were accused of fostering U. S. participation to increase their own profits. After the Armistice this skepticism of U. S. war motives was increased by the presence of Government contractors who had grown inordinately rich, big corporations from which...
...half the mines in the area closed down, organizers of the United Mine Workers of America circulated persistently among the jobless miners, exhorted them to unionize. Strikes followed. As bitterly opposed as ever to unionization were the politically powerful mine operators who hired small armies of deputy sheriffs to protect their property. Friction between miners, idle and sullen, and guards, armed and tough, generated sparks of hostility. Company commissaries were raided for food. Empty mine cabins were burned. Company property was dynamited. Non-union miners on their way to work were fired upon. Finally a deputy sheriff was shot dead...
...substantial citizens was relayed to him would the Governor act. Then, ordering 350 National Guardsmen under Colonel Daniel Carrell into Harlan County. Governor Sampson declared: "A reign of terror has been precipitated. . . . Outsiders from Illinois and other States are responsible. . . . This must stop and stop now. . . . The troops will protect those who behave themselves and take charge of those...
...Spanish Republic's avowed determination to protect ecclesiastical property by martial law, if necessary, is factual evidence which supports its accusation of communists and monarchists as responsible for the destruction of churches. It has taken the only wise course. The new Cabinet cannot afford to incur the enmity of Rome. If the republican government survives at all, it must walk a narrow road for several years, and any widespread conflict with the Church will roll it into the political quicksands...
...protect Wichita, Kans. school children while crossing streets, older and more responsible children are organized into Junior Traffic Patrols. They direct their smaller charges to safety with little red flags...