Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then followed an eleven-week hearing before the trial justice. Sinclair's defense was that he had had the jurors followed to protect them against federal influences; that in no case had the operatives made direct contact with the jurors. The trial justice sentenced Sinclair to six months in jail, Day to four months, William J. Burns to 15 days and son William Sherman Burns, to pay a $1,000 fine...
...Irene Castle Mclaughlin of Chicago, onetime arbiter (dress, dancing, hair, gait), became last week a special police officer-"So I can protect dogs and other dumb animals and see that the law is enforced regarding their treatment...
Twofold were Herbert Hoover's promises to U. S. farmers in the 1928 campaign. One was relief by means of a new Federal agency to assist in crop marketing. The other was relief by means of increased tariff rates on agricultural commodities, to protect the U. S. husbandman from foreign competition, to put him on a parity with U. S. industry...
...with Edward of Wales, announced himself a Socialist now and no longer a Communist, and was forthwith rebuked by a scathing resolution of the Communist Party (TIME, April 29), last week roared at a union meeting of Welsh miners : "I have fought as no one else has fought to protect the Communists! I have been reviled for it. I have fed them and clothed them−and I say now they are the most dishonorable set of men I have ever had dealings with...
...economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill to protect actors against the humiliation of arrest for appearance in plays adjudged immoral; Josephine Forrestal, experienced play reader; Manhattan Bankers Alonzo Potter, William V. Griffin, Duncan Spencer; Henry Codman Potter, onetime assistant stage manager with the Theatre Guild. Listed as treasurer of the venture is ubiquitous, omniferous Publisher-Explorer-Publicist George Palmer...