Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of a general movement to protect those members of the community who are neither part of the capitalist nor the labor organizations, a middle-class trade union has been formed in New York State. The situation which has given rise to this new movement is easy to understand. Capital and labor have been battling against each other without any regard for the community, prices have soared, everywhere the burden has fallen on the consumer. But a middle-class trade union will only open another antagonism...
Radicals contend that society is dividing into two rival classes; the middle-class trade unionists would apparently split it into three. If they are aiming, as they assert, to protect the consumer, they have overlooked the fact that capitalists and laborers are also consumers, who share the public interest equally with those persons who are eligible for middle-class trade unionism...
...independence of the United States. Their object is to reserve to our people the right to withdraw from the League of Nations. If they so desire, without the consent of other Powers; to leave to us alone the decision whether we shall send our soldiers and sailors to protect the territorial integrity or political independence of other and distant lands; to prevent interference by other nations in questions solely within the jurisdiction of the United States and to reserve to us alone the continued interpretation and application of our Monroe Doctrine...
Other and important reservations were adopted by the Senate, all considered necessary to safeguard and protect American rights. The United States has asked nothing in the peace settlement and has received and desires nothing except the security and peace of the world. That peace, a majority of the Senate believes, cannot be achieved through the League of Nations as agreed to at Versailles. We cannot amend the League as it applies to other nations but we are determined that it shall be made safe for the United States