Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington lobbyist, argued in Philadelphia: "The wage earner has the same right to security of employment that the stockholder has to the security of dividend payments . . . Just as reserves are accumulated to secure dividends, there should also be guarantees that part of these reserves would be set aside to protect the worker in slack times. . . . Wage payments in industry in the first half of 1930 were below 1929 by $707,000,000 while dividend payments increased over...
Meanwhile Chairman Smith sought to justify the dismissals on the ground that they were made "for harmony," that the rival employes "were blackguarding each other to their very faces," that he supposed Congress wanted "a fresh start made." His promise: "We expect to protect the public interest . . . just as effectively as some of these labeled protectors of the public...
Snappiest, most widely printed anecdote of the year about Signore Benito Mussolini was the tale of how he was recently "enticed" to the U. S. Embassy for tea by Mrs. John Work Garrett, greeted by Ambassador Garrett carrying a loaded pistol to protect the Dictator's life...
...dank rubber-growing state of Para last week a party of stocky little Cayapas Indians went on the rampage, invaded the village of Cardoso, killed 21 persons, cannily kidnapped three children as hostages to protect themselves from pursuit. From the state capital, Para's authorities despatched a detachment of 30 soldiers to what remains of Cardoso, which they were expected to reach in about eight days by river boat and rail...
...Princeton, N. J., Dr. van Dyke observed: "Who would be so unkind as to interrupt the bubbling joy of the author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...