Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor Dollfuss' assassins from seizing the Government (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), snowy-haired Delegate von Pflüql cried: "Austria will never forget that at a fateful moment in her history it was Italy who, in the best spirit of the League Covenant, helped by her attitude to safeguard the integrity of another League member, my country. Our friendship with Italy, destined to endure throughout time to come, is increased by the debt of gratitude that duty places upon us. My Government does not find itself in a position to associate itself with the conclusions reached by other members...
...accepted by one disputant (say Ethiopia) and rejected by the other (say Italy), then if, but only if, the rejector makes war upon the acceptor, the whole constellation of League States is bound under Article XI to take action "deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations...
Several persons have wondered why the University would support the games when there is a chance of possible discrimination but Bingham feels that the promise by Hitler to the American committee is a sufficient safeguard. Another reason is that the International amateur Athletic Federation awards the games to cities rather than countries and so the Chancellor would not hold direct control and all rules of competition must come from the Federation...
...speed though he was no longer getting portrait commissions. This procedure came to its inevitable finish when in 1657, at the age of 51, he was officially declared bankrupt. Saskia's kinsmen had got in time's nick a second mortgage on the house, to safeguard Titus' depleted legacy. At the forced sale of Rembrandt's collections, the prices bid were under what Dutchmen were accustomed to bid for paintings. He saved his etching plates, however, and got a little money for himself from the sale of prints...
When last year's Pulitzer Prizes were announced, the news amounted to little more than confirmation of what Gossiper Walter Winchell had already told the world. Determined to safeguard every breath of thunder, the Columbia University Trustees this year canceled the customary advance releases to the Press, kept the winners' names secret for the formal announcement last week at a Manhattan banquet...