Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Marie Dressier (Leila Koerber), 64, cinemactress; of uremia complicated by cancer; in Santa Barbara. Canadian-born, she went on the stage when she was 5, played a profusion of light roles climaxed in 1910 by the lead in Tittle's 'Nightmare in which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy...
...protect the Dionne quintuplets from "exploiters from American cities who come to Canada to pull off a racket," the Province of Ontario last week appointed four "big strapping fellows" as guardians. Exclaimed Ontario's Attorney-General Arthur Wentworth Roebuck: ''There is no law which would permit us to deal adequately with the American gentlemen attempting to exploit the children. So we must be satisfied with circumventing their scheme. Promoters may take whatever action they please to enforce their contract to exhibit the children in Chicago. But if they get the children out of the hands of these...
...protect me from vanity and pride which dull the reason! But I believe-without pride-that my Cabinet colleagues and I have improved the situation of France which previously was comparable to that of a house of cards...
...proof that Nazi Germany has been diplomatically encircled. In blazoning this encirclement to the whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff of the Eastern Locarno had warned him that, should he refuse to put pressure on Germany, they were ready to protect themselves by signing a mutual pact of military alliance. Since France and Russia possess the two largest armies in the world such an alliance would gravely upset Europe's balance of power, the one thing British diplomacy always strives...
...protecting rural homes and buildings, Mr. McEachron declares a good lightning rod is effective 99 times in 100. In use since Benjamin Franklin's time, lightning rods and the glib agents who sold them were long in disfavor with farmers because so many rod-equipped structures were struck by bolts and burned. But this was found due in almost every case to faulty installation. Nine-tenths of the deaths caused by lightning in the U. S. (some 50 per year) occur in the country. Cities are much safer because big buildings, with steel frames acting as lightning rods...