Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forward, if we stop development along economic lines in government, the American ideal dies. For we must now have economic democracy for the twentieth century as we have had political democracy in the nineteenth century. If our ideal dies, the state which is organized to protect that ideal becames a mere shell." Mr. White ended his talk by an optimistic note, declaring that conservatism and reaction so evident now following the war are passing phases of the world's shell-shock and war-weariness, and that all the altruism and all the self-scarce which America put into...
...course, that Italy wishes to protect her own citizens as well, and prevent them from being subjected to the disappointments and misfortunes which are almost inevitable under the present over-crowded and kaleidoscopic conditions at Ellis Island and elsewhere. If that is true, Italy has seen and acted wisely. If there is also behind her action a desire to co-operate with the United States, and lend what aid she can in settling the problem, she has acted with commendable friendliness. Whichever is the case, the hard-working immigration officers have at least been granted a welcome respite...
...bitter strikes, severe enough on both sides to convince the parties thereto that the old system was intolerable. Complete predomination by either side was impossible and intermittent struggles over the division of power were costly and unsatisfactory. The protocols and the agreements provided a system of government to protect each side against the other...
...nation may be isolated from other countries of the world which at some time might be pitted against us. Such isolation and possibilities would make necessary the creation and maintenance of a large standing army and a greater and more effective navy in order in some degree to protect the Republic of the United States from aggression by those countries which were our allies in the great war and which were and are now our friends...
...possible mobilizations upon a gigantic scale; n weapons and new agencies more deadly in their effect and more complicated in their production and use have all to be considered; so that if it be conceded that the United States should have so much military preparation as is necessary to protect it against aggression, then it must be conceded that the preparation must be large enough in extent and thorough enough in character to enable us to hold off an adversary while the full power of the Nation is being mobilized The choice lies between a great standing army...