Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval base and extensive fortifications were built to protect the "Gibraltar of America." From the military alone Key West merchants divided a $500,000 yearly payroll. Spongers from the Bahamas pried into the clear green waters with their long poles, brought up $375,000 worth of fine sponges each year. Shrimp fisheries boomed. And when Henry Morrison Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railway on stilts across the coral keys in 1912, Key West was an important U. S. port handling cargoes that increased to $65,000,000 yearly...
...Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton I decreed himself Protector of Mexico. He dropped this title after ill-fated Maximilian's brief reign, remarking that "It is impossible to protect such an unsettled nation...
...whatever proofs General Göring may have had last week cost General von Schleicher dear. According to the official Nazi version General von Schleicher resisted arrest by the Secret Police ''with a weapon in his hand," Frau von Schleicher flung herself before her husband to protect him and the Secret Police shot them both "in self defense." Later an eyewitness reported that six men in civilian garb had driven into the von Schleicher driveway, summoned the General and his wife, riddled them with bullets in gangster style, sped away without a word...
Cried Mr. Crowley: "You flatter yourselves if you believe the Government wishes to enter your institutions. . . . The Government is merely trying to protect depositors. ... On March 31, 1934 the book capital of 630 banks in this State amounted to $89,000,000. The total deposits amounted to $540,000,000. Upon the basis of examination recently made, it appears that the net sound capital in these 630 banks is about $50,000,000. In other words, the total net sound capital investment in Wisconsin banks amounts to less than 10% of the total deposit liability. This is an unhealthy situation...
President Roosevelt's larger purpose, however, was to gain Latin American goodwill. Even without a treaty the U. S. can, under international law, still land troops to protect the lives and property of its citizens in case of danger, as it has done on occasion in Nicaragua, Haiti, Mexico. Moreover, under the Monroe Doctrine the U. S. still preserves its policy of refusing any European nation the opportunity to acquire a foothold in Latin America. By giving up the Platt Amendment the U. S. therefore gave up virtually nothing of practical importance, while winning the kindly regard of those...