Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight by offering a system that begins and ends at the discretion of the Attorney-General and his advisers. Unless the government exercises the utmost moderation in the execution of the loyalty tests, the abuses inherent in the plan will go far to destroy an ideology while trying to protect it. Before the Attorney-General unwittingly sets off a modern version of the Salem witch hunts, he would do well to consider the fiasco that culminated in the Sacco-Vanzetti case after the first World...
...group of men with whom he talked one night. Among them were Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime ambassador to Great Britain, and Bernard Baruch. They saw a U.S. foreign policy leading to prodigal spending, national bankruptcy and destruction of the very democratic system which the policy sought to protect. Kennedy doubted that such investments as Truman recommended would ever succeed in stopping Communism's spread. The poverty-stricken peoples of the world, he thought, were bound to try out Communism, if only because of its glittering promises...
Claiming to have been always firmly anti-Nazi, Dr. Kersten is a Finnish citizen who now lives and practices in Sweden. He declares that he treated Himmler (also Ribbentrop, Hess, Ley, et al.) simply to protect his own family. He was also instrumental, he says, in sending thousands of victims of German concentration camps to safety into Switzerland and Sweden. Documents reproduced in his Memoirs, and an introduction by Biographer Konrad (Hitler) Heiden, indicate that his claims are true. So also may be his reports of tall Nazi ambitions. Samples...
...organize for collective bargaining. Said Justice Jackson for the 5-to-4 majority: though the foremen's interests lie with management in maintaining production, they may be opposed when it comes to fixing wages, hours and working conditions. Therefore, foremen must be allowed "collective action to protect their collective interests...
...economic sanctions are useless on a country as wealthy as Argentina. There remains only the necessity for halting Argentine encroachment by aiding the unproductive states that come under Peron's thumb through their economic dependence. If American farmers can afford to dump leads of potatoes on the ground to protect the market, then they can also supply badly needed foodstuffs for Bolivian miners. A program of adding the economically weak countries of South America to the list of nations benefitting by American food would supply the incentive for vigorous opposition to the evils of Argentine expansion. By capitalizing...