Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bothering neither to conceal his own indignation nor protect the dignity of the highest court, Justice Jackson called in newspaper correspondents to tell them about it. He ended his extraordinary statement piously: "It is desirable to get the controversy all back of us now so that he [Vinson] can take up his tasks without a cloud hanging over the court...
...Protect a Monopoly? If the proposals stick, most of the lines can stay in business only by trying to get a franchise as a scheduled line. Few had the cash or time to push an application through CAB over the objections of established lines. The cargo business, the new lines grumbled bitterly, would now go to the regularly scheduled lines...
...doubted that closer control of nonscheduled flying was needed. But too drastic control would almost certainly choke off new competition altogether. Nonscheduled carriers grumbled that the CAB was killing a vigorous young industry in order to protect the monopoly of the established lines. Snapped Sigfried Samuelsson, executive vice president of their trade body, the Institute of Air Transportation: this is "extermination rather than regulation...
...most candid chapters in The Good Fight, this veteran of another Bataan defeat soon decided that the situation under MacArthur was hopeless. At one point he asked himself whether "any government has the right to demand loyalty from its citizens" if it could no longer protect them. At another he considered giving himself up to the Japanese-not, he protests, out of disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought he might thus "solidify the opposition of the Filipinos" against the invading Japanese. Finally, to halt the "possibly useless sacrifice" of Filipino life and property...
...bent with arthritis, played piano to Yehudi's fiddle, and conducted the Rumanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In eight days they played seven concerts, one of them for Rumania's King Michael and his aunt, Princess Elisabeth. Guards with Tommy guns stood at the doors, to protect Government officials in the audience. During the concert, janitors swept the floors, poking with their brooms beneath the feet of annoyed listeners. A huge U.S. flag hung behind Menuhin on stage, the first time it has been centrally displayed in Rumania since...