Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North. Italy's troops had drawn up on a 60 mile A-A-A (Aksum-Aduwa-Adigrat) front. Between them and Makale, their next important objective, stood the 8,000 ft. mountain of Gual Azai. To protect the Italian forces leftward under General Santini from a flank attack, General Diamanti led 3,000 Blackshirts and an indefinite number of black-faced Askaris in a nine-mile drive round the mountain. General Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli commanding the centre moved his men forward at the same time to capture the rich Feres Mai Valley and a number of important wells. Nowhere...
...brought about by the fact that Benjamin Franklin will pass before Professor Matthiessen for judgment this morning. There are many opportunities for debunking even this wise American. But the fact that he was born in Boston on a once pure Milk Street and baptized in Old South Church should protect his life in a thoroughly puritanical manner...
...Howard Fulton of Chicago: Why should the clergy waste time in seeking to advise a man on social security legislation who has ruthlessly broken his campaign promises, discarded his platform and repudiated the Constitution which he swore to protect, uphold and defend...
...Awash last week, at the edge of the spidery railroad bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway in Ethiopia at its most vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...
...reported to have offered to spare the railroad if Emperor Haile Selassie would remove all troops and munitions from Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The King of Kings was supposed to have turned down this proposal on the ground that he needed his troops in those two towns to protect foreigners from his civilian subjects. Next offer was to spare the road if Ethiopia promised to transport no munitions on it. Haile Selassie appeared to leap at this idea. Since the League lifted its arms embargo against Ethiopia, guns and ammunition have been coming into the black empire...