Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor David Holtz, back at Tallahassee from the American Legion convention in Miami (see above), felt that an explanation was due with regard to his tardiness in calling out the militia. "It was not a case of calling out the militia to protect the jail or a prisoner in custody of an officer," said he. "The Negro was held in the hands of a mob out in the woods. . . . It would have been futile to have called out the militia...
...employees had no quarrel with the policy of the A and P, as they claimed that they were being fairly treated and that wages and working conditions were satisfactory. At the same time, another group of employees, led by union leaders, announced that "a closed shop was essential to protect the interest of employees." Measures adopted by this latter group, included the blockade of trucks under contract to deliver A and P goods, the agitation against employees, who desired to return to their jobs, some picketing and violence with the chance that affairs may take a more serious turn...
...sent bombing planes, partly to ensure the safety of Rumanian King Carol and Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes, partly to remind grief-stricken Jugoslavia of her treaty ties with France. So impressed was the Jugoslav Government that the official last words of King Alexander were amended last week from "Protect Jugoslavia!" to "Protect Jugoslavia and cherish our friendship with France"-no mean mouthful for a man dying of hemorrhage provoked by bullets...
Meanwhile the Court scandal of the decade vortexed around General Alexander Dimitriejevitch, Marshal of the Court who accompanied King Alexander to Marseille. "He should have committed suicide since he failed to protect King Alexander's life!" cried officers of the Royal Guard. "Instead of that he returns to take up his post as the guardian of King Peter as though nothing had happened...
...give a satisfactory definition of offensive ships. Thus under the shelter of such a treaty Japan could, and will if possible, attempt to build her navy to match the strength of her Pacific rivals. Once already, fear of Japanese invasion has caused a concentration of English sea power to protect Singapore and the Dutch Indies. Consequently it is absurd to believe that England would allow Japan to create a navy commensurate in size or strength with her own. Nor is it conceivable that Senator Hiram Johnson and his colleagues would allow the United states to stand idle while her Pacific...