Word: protective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shocking revelations at Washington of betrayal of public interest must give profound concern to every lover of our institutions and to every patriotic American regardless of party . . . The duty of the Government is no less to punish those who are guilty than to protect those who are innocent. No attempt to divert attention from the guilty should be permitted...
...Chairman?Well, Mr. Vanderlip, the explanation you give as to the statements you made in reference to the newspaper at Marion was to protect the reputation of the dead man. You did not have any such purpose in mind in reference to the committee...
...arms and munitions of our Government for the purpose of insuring his own domestic tranquility. We had either to re fuse or to comply. To refuse would have appeared to be equivalent to deciding that a friendly Government, which we had recognized, ought not to be permitted to protect itself...
...There will be immediate, adequate, unshrinking prosecution, criminal and civil, to punish the guilty, and to protect every national interest. In this effort there will be no politics, no partisanship. It will be speedy, it will be just. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account shield any one because he is a Republican. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account prosecute any one because he is a Democrat...
...order to protect the "War-baby" beet sugar industry of this country, a tariff on imported sugars was placed in the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. The beet sugar growers of Utah and other centres have strongly supported this tariff. And the sugar refineries and the American companies producing cane sugar in Louisiana, Cuba and elsewhere have strongly opposed it. Without the tariff, the American beet sugar industry is doomed, since it cannot compete with the lower costs of producing Cuban sugars. With the tariff, we have a situation analogous to taxing American sugar consumers in order to subsidize the domestic...