Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Irving Potash, C. I. O. Fur Workers Union man, objected, saying that Russia had merely drawn a line in Poland to protect itself from Germany, the floor exploded with boos and sarcastic cries of "Heil Hitler!" As Potash struggled on, booing broke into thunderous shouts of "Take him away! Down with Hitler...
...aims would be to satisfy, and perhaps enlist the sympathies of, neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this U. S. perplexity better expressed than in a letter to that font of British Governmental information, the London Times, from one who has lectured, instructed, amused and scared Americans by the thousand...
...when David begins to see that the world he has been brought up in is false, alas, he totes his bruised adolescence off to Father No.1, long since weaned from the bottle by David's influence and now a city editor. But to protect Father No. 2's in with his biggest client, Mother has already got to Father No. 1, who runs out on David. Disillusioned, with much boyish charm David tells Mother she has made a nice mess of both their lives. She packs him off "where he belongs," to Father No. 1, who never...
Hearing that the British Fleet was being divided to protect its coasts from submarine raids, Admiral Scheer of the bottled-up German High Seas Fleet determined to venture an attack from his bases back of Helgoland. The British caught on, steamed to meet the Germans, and Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled...
There is, of course, the third possibility to be considered-that the Embargo will be abolished and no legislation enacted to take its place. In that case the United States would have to depend on International Law to protect its neutrality; what is International law has best been described by Charles A. Beard-"a veritable jumble of claims, assertions . . . and hot contentions." These then are the bare facts. In themselves they point in no definite direction, yet they must underlie any valid opinion on the neutrality issue...