Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erect a tariff wall as high as that of the U. S., or even higher. The problem is one of expediency. The U. S. sends many things to France that, on account of superior production facilities, cannot be duplicated so cheaply in Europe. When there is no intent to protect home industry, if the policy of protection must indeed be pursued, it would seem a signal lack of judgment to discriminate against U. S. goods in order to favor some other nation...
...needs water in her rich subdivision, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, and is ready to spend huge sums at once to get that water. The conferees pointed fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman...
STRENGTHEN YOUR UNIONS TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE CHAMPION (Louder cheers...
...account of higher U. S. prices and the great shipment distances involved. U. S. businessmen in France were accordingly hopeful that the Franco-German Treaty will have the effect of hastening the conclusion of a U. S.-French treaty, which they feel is badly needed to protect their legitimate interests...
...bless my soul, sir, what did the scoundrel say to me? He said: 'Me no care what you say, Blitishman. Chinaman get back plane plenty quick or whippy Blitish army. How you like that? Chinaman wanty only protect his "interests," as you say in China...