Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the New York World, which has led in forcing the investigation, cease its series of lynching articles and recall its reporter from Aiken. Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina also implied that the World articles are causing hostility to his own investigation, but he has offered to protect the World reporter from any Klan violence. Another actor in the Aiken episode is Senator Cole Blease, alert blatherskite, who last week announced that he would defend Aiken County against damage suits which are to be brought by relatives of the Lowman Negroes...
...that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet of Harper's may enclose as many and as vitriolic shafts directed against complacency as the verdant boards of the less adroit Mercury...
...President sat down, listened to speeches by Secretary of War Davis and American Legion Commander Howard P. Savage. He might have shivered but he did not because Secret Service Chief Jarvis wrapped an automobile blanket about him; also Mrs. Catherine Brew, War mother, sent her wool blanket to protect him. Said...
...ends. In the second place, nearly every one of the leaders who have advocated it in public admit that in private that they do not believe the time has yet come for the Americans to withdraw completely from the Islands. Their secret ideal is for complete independence under the protecting arm of the United States, with the right to call on us for unlimited funds to experiment with government and business, and with the expectation that in the event of danger of external aggression our might will protect them...
...gangs had originally been one, a compact body organized against the Ku Klux Klan to protect the interests of the Herrin liquor trade. Carl Shelton and Charles Birger disagreed about something-a holdup, a woman, a rake-off-nobody was sure. Mr. Shelton had an armored car made in St..Louis and hired a squad of gunmen to go round with him. Mr. Birger got his own friends together. It was hard to say who would...