Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democrat" are becoming more and more meaningless, they are the only adjectives that can adequately describe the character and work of Louis Brandeis. For this man throughout his career has been a fighter for the democratic ideal. Never content with a single triumph, he realized that the only safeguard of democracy was eternal vigilance. And this idea prompted his unceasing opposition to the forces of reaction, as his background so well illustrates...
Under the broad general provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, each Fraternity must pay two per cent of its pay roll (or the equivalent of pay in board), in order to safeguard the latter years of such of its members as are given jobs to help them to pay for their meals. There is already a section of the law exempting, employees of educational institutions but under a technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious...
...these technical and highly-specialized agencies are to be effective, they must have the best possible trained personnel. Hopkins seemed to think that intelligent newspaper publicity would be an adequate safeguard against poor patronage appointments and the agencies misuse of their delegated power. Yet such front-page publicity would be well-high impossible to get, for unlike the T.V.A. or the S.E.C., whose decisions on matters of policy frequently rate headlines, these proposed bureaus would be solely menial, administrative instruments of policies already enacted by Congress. Since these agencies would probably assume a position similar to that of the Budget...
...Intelligent publicity regarding administrative functions is an effective safeguard against the misuse of bureaucratic powers," he added...
...Safeguard of French Art is the creation of a rotund, twinkling Frenchman, the Due de Trévise, whose great grandfather, one of Napoleon's marshals, was killed by an infernal machine in 1835 while riding beside King Louis Philippe. In gratitude to the family, the King gave their name to a street, the Rue de Trévise near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully...