Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pinchot appointed Fine to a judgeship. Fine took the job reluctantly, more to protect his prestige as a patronage dispenser than because he wanted it. In 1947 Governor James Duff promoted him to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Each time, after his appointment was up, Fine was elected to the posts. It never bothered Fine-and it never bothered most of the people in Luzerne County-that he was a political boss and a judge at the same time...
...Carl conceded, "is the best we can do in the circumstances, and if we did not have it we would have to invent something very like it." Nonetheless, he added in disillusion, "we established at San Francisco an organization which could no doubt protect the world against a marauding mouse but not against any real danger from a tiger...
...greatest concern" of the American people: U.S. foreign policy. With forthright emphasis, "Mr. Republican" denied the existence of genuine bipartisanship in foreign affairs, denounced the diplomacy of Truman and Acheson as "the most disastrous" in the whole history of U.S. foreign policy, then offered his own formula to protect freedom and defeat Communism. He disavowed isolationism in the strongest terms, and called for a "crusade" to "spread the doctrine of individual liberty throughout the world...
Indictment. "What," asked Taft, "are the purposes of foreign policy?" His answer: to protect the "liberty," "peace," and "solvency" of the U.S. people. The Democratic Administration, said he, protected none of these...
...hope," said Taft, "all Republicans can combine on a platform and campaign condemning . . . incompetence and lack of judgment . . . from Yalta and Potsdam until today; and supporting a policy designed above all to protect the security, the peace and the solvency of the American people...