Word: protective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...select and over-rated clubs, whose membership is often composed of the "don't-cares" rather than of really big men. Of the latter there are plenty at Harvard, too; they come prepared to give their best, and, finding it often unwanted, draw within their shells and seek to protect themselves with the same indifference which they despise. Averse to the charge of "sour grapes," they say nothing, and so remain a silent, unorganized, unhappy element in Harvard life...
...other three Pennsylvanians, one Nathan T. Folwell (dress goods), Samuel M. Vauclain (Baldwin locomotives), Edward T. Stotesbury (banks) ; but Mr. Vauclain became involved in an explanation of a $10,000 contribution which his company had made to an organization (The American Economic Institute) whose frankly admitted aim was " to protect the railroads against improper legislation...
...Doheny, furtively and illegally contrived, and should therefore be canceled. Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, for the Doheny interests, who said he would show that no thought of profiteering lurked in the minds of Messrs. Fall and Doheny, but only a desire on Mr. Fall's part to protect the U. S. by securing to the Navy a hoard of fuel oil at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as planned by far-sighted Navy officials. Lawyer Hogan said he would show further that Mr. Fall had played a "purely formal and perfunctory part" in carrying out these plans, which called for leasing...
...offer this challenge to all those who regard judges as the sole defenders of our liberties. Show me one case in which the courts have protected human rights; and I will show you 20 in which they have disregarded human rights to protect property...
...previous administration. When strong popular movements, hostile to American encroachment, have been placed in power, the American government has not hesitated to interfere in a financial and even in a military way. To many Latin Americans is seems that the influence of the United States, at first Intended to protect the infant liberties of small nations, has become a blighting incubus, stifling native development. The swaddling clothes, tenderly wrapped about these small peoples a hundred years ago, have, by natural growth of the protected object, become a straight jacket to cramp their initiative and curtail their liberties. The Monroe Doctrine...