Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monitor's crew claimed bounty for the destruction of the Merrimac. A congressional committee investigated the facts and rejected the claim on the ground "that the Merrimac, so far from being seriously injured, was enabled after the engagement to protect the approaches to Norfolk and Richmond until after the evacuation of Norfolk". (H. R. Reports, 1725, 48th Congress, 1st Session...
First the box would twirl down six stories to the flagpole, then four more to the marquee over the sidewalk. There was a mesh of strong wire over the upper side of the marquee to protect the glass from things that might be dropped out of windows. Yes, the box would probably be broken to bits. It would frighten that woman? in the car in front of the hotel; it would make the traveling salesman** in front of the drugstore jump out of his skin. Slowly, cautiously, Mrs. Barron began to lower the box out of the window...
...Devoted nearly all its time, vocal effort and a considerable amount of bitterness to consideration of farm relief. The debate was on the Haugen bill, which originally proposed a fund of $375,000,000 to protect farm prices, but the amount was pared to $175,000,000 in order to improve the bill's chances; $75,000,000 of this amount was set aside for cotton to bring the South into line, and a bitter fight raged. The North and East turned on the bill calling it rank subsidy. Congressman Tincher (who had a more modest...
...would like to see the time when business writes a charter of American business freedom, a bill of rights of its own, to protect itself both from government and from some of its own temptations. ... If we mean anything by liberty and equality of opportunity, we mean not only that business must be free from undue interference and oppression by the government, but also that it must be free from undue entangling alliances with the government. ... If you complain of too much government in business, I answer that the solution is twofold: put more business into government and more self...
...leitmotif of this year's set of 28 was, in effect, "Don't pester business. Protect it where necessary...