Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, it is safe to assume, has justified its existence as a social institution. Yet when the House Plan threatens to force most of them, perhaps all of them, to give up the ghost, it seems only fair that the administration be duly considerate of all the circumstances, and protect the interests of the many organizations which have been so important in undergraduate life, and which at all times have worked at one with the stated policies of the faculty and administration...
...delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling he should go to the London parley in the same capacity or at least authorized to veto any agreement which he felt did not protect the U. S. Navy. He did not accept his "advisory" role until he heard that his chief, Secretary Adams, was to be a delegate...
...State had lately been organized Wisconsin Bankshares Corp. to acquire local banks to "protect" them from "foreign control." Locally patriotic as the purpose of Wisconsin Bankshares might be. it was not sufficiently so to prevent the Progressive politicians from adopting this resolution...
Clifford Wittingham Beers and his associates in the great Mental Hygiene movement (TIME, Nov. 25) tacked to a new educational course last week. The past 20 years they have been spreading a general lesson?protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach specifically how to prevent mental and nervous troubles, how to treat and cure developed cases. TIME'S reference to what Yale's President James Rowland Angell said at the mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist...
Actor Eddie (Whoopee) Cantor confessed that when he had heard of Mr. Rosenwald's offer to protect his employes' accounts, he had wired for a job as office boy. The confession was in Caught Short, humorous story of his market troubles...