Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirteen Padlocks. On every drawer of the new Cash Register are U. S. padlocks. Thirteen of the 60 articles in the Statute were drawn wholly or in part to protect the U. S. Federal Reserve, which, under Article Twenty, has power to veto any dollar transactions contemplated in any country by the Bank. Getting this clause adopted was the major triumph at Baden-Baden of the two U. S. representatives, short, stocky Jackson Eli Reynolds and lanky, drawling Melvin Alva ("Mel") Traylor, presidents of the First National Banks of New York and Chicago, respectively...
...Australia hesitates to receive immigrants it must not be conceived in an unfriendly spirit or as a lack of desire to fraternize with the peoples of other lands but merely as a desire to protect Australians from the misery of unemployment...
...subject of the Newark debate is: Resolved, That as part of its disarmament program the United States should promise to cooperate with other notions to protect a disarmed nation from an unjust attack...
...defense of the much maligned Harvard students, who in their efforts to protect an ungrateful public have brought down a flood of criticism upon themselves and Harvard, we wish to state that the cage is no Black Hole of Calcutta. Rather it is a depot where they await free transportation, furnished through the kindness of the Boston Police Department; their destination being the Station House where they await the arrival of their negligent parents. W. J. Henrich...
...must protect itself in some way from this weekly invasion, and the present system seems to be not only expedient, but also very effective if the decrease in attendance in the cages since the Army game can be a criteria Climbing fence is not a major crime, but merely an annoyance, and ridicule undoubtedly has a sobering influence. Besides, the caging not only protects the Athletic Association but also must to some degree appease that adolescent craving for publicity. What more equitable justice is there than that which satisfies not only the prosecutor, but also the punished...