Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal to reduce the tariff for British-grown sugar was passed, 190 to 98. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill claimed that it was absolutely necessary to protect the West Indian and other sugar industries or see them go bankrupt...
...special bridge over the motor assembly line was constructed with white canvas carpets to protect his royal eyes and princely feet from proletarian contact. All painters worked four hours overtime the night previous, touching up the locations of honor. The British and American capitalist flags were flying over the administration building that...
...long as the Tricolor keeps its color, it will protect from violence and exaction peoples it has promised to protect...
...Spanish zone. The French countered by occupying the valley in force. The Spanish blockade drove the Riffs to depend more and more for supplies on their agents in French Morocco. This move was accompanied by inciting other Moroccan tribes to revolt against the French. France took action to protect the natives. Abd-el-Krim replied by declaring that the occupation by French troops of the upper Wergha Valley, which was under his control, constituted an unfriendly act, declared war. The French reply was given by Premier Painlevé in the Chamber of Deputies last week...
...name of the Almighty, All-Knowing God, I swear to devote all my energies to the welfare of the German people; to increase their prosperity, to protect them from injury, to preserve the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, to perform my duties conscientiously and to deal justly with all." To this he added So wahr mir Gott helfe (So help me God), thus setting a precedent for other (if any) Presidents...