Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years past Federal courts granted injunctions against miners' unions under the interstate commerce clause because the coal they mined went into interstate commerce. Now the shoe is on the other foot. When the Government tries to protect the wages of miners, the Court rules they are engaged in purely local business...
Which Capitalist European Power would be the first to swallow its hatred of Communism and make a military ally of Soviet Russia? The Russians frankly needed and wanted a European friend to protect their back in case they ever fight Japan in the East. Germany and Poland, however, were too close to the Bolshevik Menace to see the opportunity. Three weeks ago France hesitantly took the plunge, signed a Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Russia (TIME, May 13). Last week Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France, arrived in Moscow to see what kind of a bargain...
...Liberia is now in a position to establish a closer bond of friendship between the republic and the United States, an alliance which should protect it from threatened dangers from without, such as the recent suggestion that Liberia be mandated by Germany...
...Government has sanctioned the formation of a union for the defense of our interests. It must be a strong, serious union to protect our cause...
Last week Women Investors, Inc. filed its charter in Albany. It promised to "arouse women to a realization of the stake they hold in the nation's wealth." It promised to protect and preserve industry, stocks & bonds, homes, husbands, etc. It promised to oppose "unsound" legislation. "Few people realize," it said, "that women own 70% of the wealth of this country; 80% of the insurance policies now in effect. . . . It is the women who guard the family pocketbook, and the women now have decided to guard the nation's pocketbook...