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...Flight. "The Administration's 'yellow dog' injunction has reached the Supreme Court. . . . The Supreme Court is and . . . will ever be the protector of American liberties." He trembled on the verge of tears. "During its period of deliberation the Court [must] be free from public pressure superinduced by the hysteria and frenzy of an economic crisis...
Constantin von Neurath, oldest of the defendants (73), onetime protector of Czechoslovakia; 15 years...
...Portuguese had felt boastful instead of wistful, there was material for self-congratulation about their Government and their way of life. Britain, their old ally, banker and protector, now owed them ?80,000.000. Spain, their old rival, was in the United Nations' doghouse, while Salazar, in spite of his anti-democratic sympathies, had pursued throughout World War II a serpentine policy whose final tack was enough in the Allies' direction to earn their tolerance, if not their approval. The Portuguese national budget, thanks to Salazar, was always balanced these days. (It had shown a deficit...
Burned Up. In lola, Kans., during a heated altercation with the umpire, Catcher Dave Dennis' chest protector burst into flames...
...also foresaw the political repercussions it would set up. He spoke out in leadership against it, pulled 69 Senators (including all but 13 Democrats) with him. Arch-conservative Bob Taft emerged, to the embarrassment of the Administration and to the surprise of labor, as labor's stern protector...