Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop it selling "Vogue" hats. Several times subsequently Vogue had threatened similar actions and obtained satisfaction out of court. But despite Publisher Nast's insinuation, no newspapers or magazines had ever been involved. Publisher Nast had not been villainously put upon by unscrupulous publishing competitors. His appeal "to protect Vogue's originality," was simply another manifestation of the thing advertised, "Vogue's originality...
...Fort Saulsbury, Del., Capt. William R. Maris, commandant, received from neighboring farmers an anonymous request to refrain from gun firing, thus to protect their turkey eggs from cracking...
Chop Suey and the Chinese tong are as American as hashed brown potatoes; neither is known in China; both sprang up to fill a need. Tong means association. The first tong was organized in San Francisco's Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled...
Governor Dan Moody, apprized of the situation, sent 70 militiamen, was reported to have telegraphed: "Protect the Negro, but don't shoot anybody...
...recollection of buying. If rich, highly strung clients cannot depend on their dressmakers to guard them from such humiliating mistakes, argued Paris editors last week; if the U. S. Treasury is actually spending millions of francs to corrupt poor Paris clerks, then the Government of France should act to protect the national interest. Roundly M. Poiret swore that there was only one means by which photostatic copies of his books could have been obtained-burglary, as bold as ever was committed. He filed formal complaint "against persons unknown" before a Judge d'Instruction, who expressed indignation, issued an order...