Word: safeguarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same problem now comes to the fore with the question of a central bank. How shall we safeguard the Integrity of our central board? How can we Insure that they will have sufficient intestinal fortitude to withstand the criticism and abuse which will be hurled at them for putting on the "brakes" "when business is booming," to borrow again from the lips of Lippmann? As he himself, indicates, the problem cannot be solved simply by insuring the members of the central board an adequate salary. The writer of Today and the sage of Tomorrow observes that in large part this...
...Senate Appropriations Committee provided, by a vote of 12 to 8, that the wages paid in the public works program should be "not less than the prevailing wage" of private industry in the locality. This provision goes directly contrary to the President's wishes, and removes an essential safeguard to prevent the huge expenditures of public money from interfering in the recovery of private business...
...speech delivered several years ago before the journalists at Geneva, the German Foreign Minister said that every diplomat who comes to international conferences plays two roles. In one role he is the representative of national interests, and it is his duty to safeguard and forward those interests as far as possible. His attention to those demands is continually compelled by the press and political administration in his own country. "National honor" and "American interests" are some of the vague phrases which are hurled at him if he appears to pay too much attention to the intelligent demands of other countries...
This, perhaps, is exaggeration. Certainly, so far as the United States is concerned, there is still the time-worn safeguard of competition--the competition of press associations, of newspapers, of cable companies--and freedom from censorship. The extravagance of one report may be corrected by the moderation of another. There is further the competition of news despatches from many foreign capitals. Affirmation clashes with denial. Oddly enough, national competition still has its value. But ruthless competition in any form (national, or that of profit-greedy newspapers, as during the Cuban crisis, 1895-1898) is as dangerous as autocratic, or monopolistic...
...Minister General Maurin smiled grimly as Rapporteur Archimbaud reached the climax of his careful statement: "Reichsführer Adolf Hitler has tried to set against Soviet Russia her natural enemies-Poland and Japan. Realizing that this might endanger the peace of Europe, Russia and France have wished to safeguard their liberty. It is undeniable that an understanding exists between them." Tumult and shouts of Vive la France...