Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although I have not given Secretary Kellogg's statement careful study, it seems to be very fair in its statement of America's attitude. Of course, the United States will have to protect its citizens in China, as it is doing in Nicaragua; but it will be a different job in China."-Sir Esme Howard, Ambassador of His Brittanic Majesty...
...Finally," concluded Professor Johnson, "it makes it easier for the voters to protect their government from undue influence by unscrupulous or over zealous minorities from degenerating into petty strife for personal or factional advantage, and to hold it consistently loyal to the general welfare. Proportional Representation makes the ballot of greater value and interest to the voter, practically every vote helping to elect somebody in every council or legislature. It does away with the primary, not by taking a backward step, but by going forward to something better and more efficient...
...springs from his election, and that it never would have been made except for that election, an election which, the evidence discloses, was wickedly and fraudulently accomplished. It is that which taints and challenges these credentials here presented. . . . If the Senate does not guard its own portals and protect its own integrity, then there is no power outside the Senate to protect that integrity...
...this kind. I am sorry it has occurred. So that I may remove all taint of suspicion that I speak from interested motives, I remark that I was born and reared in the Presbyterian faith. . . . I do not propose to interfere with the efforts of the Executive to protect the interests of the United States until and unless it becomes manifest that he is pursuing a dangerous course. . . . Sir, I do not believe we are in danger of war with Mexico unless it is stirred up by intemperate speeches and intemperate articles in newspapers. . . . Intolerance, sir, is the child...
...these rights. Arbitration under such circumstances resembles taking what one wants and flipping a coin to see if one was justified. An uncomfortable suspicion arises that the administration is marking time until revolution shall break out in Mexico and enable "the Devil-Dogs" to go in to restore order, protect American lives and property, and allow the United States Petroleum interests to develop Mexican resources in their own sweet...