Word: safeguarding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussing the danger of snake bites. Dr. do Amaral said. "The most poisonous snake in the western world is the bush master of Central America but the Florida rattlesnake is almost as deadly. Now that serums have been produced to safeguard against all snakebites, people must be educated to capture the poisonous reptiles and send them to the central institute where they can be made to give up their venom. Nonpoisonous snakes should not be killed but should be left alone as they are valuable in their combat against rodents...
...State Department was requested by President Diaz of Nicaragua to send down an expert to survey Nicaragua's finances. Nicaragua needed more money. U. S. bankers were wary of loaning more money to a country already requiring U. S. Marines to put it in order and thus safeguard present U. S. loans & property. The State Department assigned the survey to Dr. William Wilson Cumberland, who was just through serving as U. S. financial dictator of Haiti. Dr. Cumberland went, saw and reported last March to Secretary Kellogg on the fiscal state of Nicaragua. President Diaz took his copy...
That the U. S. State Department nominate, and Nicaragua's president appoint, a Collector-General and an Auditor-General for Nicaragua, both to be Americans, to safeguard the U. S. interests involved and ensure Nicaraguan stability. These officers "would be welcomed by the Nicaraguan people," asserted Dr. Cumberland...
...White House that the episode ended. "In-behalf-of-the-President"-that is, by the President himself at press conference-it was announced that the Cumberland plan would never do, that the Coolidge administration would not (again) undertake to supervise, safeguard or guarantee foreign loans made by its citizens, or to interfere in any way with another country's fiscal freedom...
...Commercial business requires a concentration of responsibility. Self-government requires decentralization and many checks and balances to safeguard liberty. Our Government, to succeed in business, would need to become in effect a despotism...