Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seemed strikingly strange and most difficult to understand why manufacturers who are the beneficiaries of such a high protective tariff as those engaged in the textile manufacturing industry would be the first to attempt to impose a reduction in the wages of their workers. . . . Reduction in wages are not proposed and are not being forced upon the workers in other industries. . . . Existing economic facts make their position unjustifiable and indefensible. . . . How can the workers in the textile industry sustain a reduced purchasing power through the imposition of a substantial reduction in wages and at the same time maintain and enjoy...
...bungled. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were not met at the pier, Mr. Liggett and his party having gone to the wrong pier by mistake. Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were so badly jostled by the crowds of eager druggists that naval and military aids had to use force to protect them...
...Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to project the covenants of the League. The high contracting parties agree further that . . . they will afford passage through their territory to the forces of any of the high contracting parties who are cooperating to protect the covenants of the League...
Thirdly, despite Premier Baldwin, the British Government refuses to protect home steelmakers by a tariff. Steel is considered a basic material, and must be had cheap. British steel costs about $10 per ton more than foreign steel. England, true to her free-trade principles, believes in buying the foreign steel when it is cheaper and letting her home manufacturers of steel go hang...
Attorney Zumbrunn and two national officers of the Klan were reported as starting from Washington for Denver by airplane to look after the Klan's interests and protect its property...