Word: safeguarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deft Direction. Mrs. Dilling was defended by her ex-husband. Those without funds were represented by court-appointed lawyers. On behalf of their clients, who have shown little enthusiasm for democratic ways, the 22 lawyers energetically demanded every final democratic safeguard. All week long the legalists bobbed up & down, objecting, concurring, complaining. They protested because the court reporter worked for a firm with an allegedly Jewish executive. They applied for a writ of mandamus to have the whole thing dropped. They said there were too many policemen in court for a "relaxed" atmosphere-and FBI agents had been "persecuting...
...profits. Patriotism aside, they have grown politically sensitive in the past decade and have no wish to be accused of profiteering. Last week in St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, the world's No. 1 producer of bomber turrets publicly embraced the theory that the best wartime safeguard of free enterprise is low profits. Said Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.'s President and Board Chairman William Stuart Symington Ill, at a labor-management banquet...
...generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier Chisholm recommends drill as one safeguard against nervous breakdown because 1) it gives a man a feeling that he is part of a group, 2) it reduces him temporarily to the condition of a child for whom all decisions are made. After a good dose of drill, a man can be rebuilt to use the special...
...inevitable that Italy will be involved; Il Duce has been building for this war as surely as Hitler"-and he was in the crowd beneath the balcony of the Palazzo Venetia when Mussolini delivered his stab in the back to France and called Italy to arms "to safeguard her honor, interests, and future...
Turning to British destiny in Europe, Sir Samuel said: "Having achieved [military strength] we do not intend to abandon it ... it is the guarantee of British victory. Tomorrow it must be the safeguard of European stability...