Word: protective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheeler Defense Committee, an impromptu organization with the purpose of helping the senator from Montana to protect himself from the machinations of the Department of Justice, is soliciting the nation at large for funds. Although this appeal probably will not meet a very great material response from American undergraduates for reasons which reflect not at all on the worth of the cause, it deserves at least their sympathy and moral support...
...manufactured by the big caciques (political and industrial bosses) who want to dispose of the public domain at a fat profit to themselves. Their insincerity is indicated by their naive assumption that independence will be accompanied by some sort of "mandate" or "guarantee" under which the U. S. will protect them. What is there in this...
...could not find room. My forces were on guard and at no time were they troubled by the Communists. These must have been concealed near the place where the shooting began, because the young men walked into a real trap. Most of the latter had not even canes to protect themselves with...
Things rapidly went from bad to worse. What things and how bad they were before they became worse, despatches omitted. At any rate, a situa tion was created at the seaport of Ceiba which prompted the U. S. Government to send the cruiser Denver to the scene to protect U. S. and other foreign lives and property...
...granted, it is interesting to note that the suppression of these two publications has brought on a wave of petty declarations from other college offices to the effect that any similar infringement of journalistic etiquette would be severely punished. Other colleges evidently felt that they might need to protect themselves against the irrepressible doings of their undergraduates, and be called upon to justify their actions in the eyes of the world. Unaffected by outside protest, the authorities of Harvard have quietly continued to keep their hands off of student opinion, knowing that the whole affair would take care of itself...