Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion 90% of the people who belong to unions belong because they must belong if they want to work. . . . I accept unions. I believe the right of people to join unions should be protected by law but I believe just as strongly that there should be a law to protect the right to work of anybody who wants to keep out of a union...
...message to Italian merchant and naval seamen, Admiral Cunningham said: "Your ships are urgently needed to assist in the work of carrying supplies to Italy, and your warships to protect them from the Germans...
...plot begins when Cary Grant walks into a War Relief agency to put across a swindling scheme, meets Miss Day, and spends the rest of the picture trying to protect himself from her advances. Of course, she reforms him, changes his taste in ties, and the two of them indulge in an inevitable sticky romance, thereby comenting relations for the movie's sake, anyway...
...strong in its own right, would have to be the master of its members. It would have to be granted by the separate nations a sizable chunk of their sovereignty. It would have to be able to deal directly with people-to tax them, jail them, regulate them, protect them. It would have to be a federation, a genuine union...
...completely filled by servicemen and civilians tied to their books, there's some life in the old bird yet. The servicemen prove it every Saturday night when they hit town on liberty or pass. The civilians tried to prove in this week when they marched on Padcliffe "to protect the fair damsels," after Eliot Hall had been robbed and 11, girls had chipped in a total of 39 dollars to satisfy a pair of second story workers...