Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan and the Godesberg Demands. Either would give Germany all the most important fortifications of "the Czech Maginot Line," which encircles the West end of Czechoslovakia. To sanction either would mean that Britain and France had scrapped League and other post-War treaty obligations which have been supposed to safeguard the "territorial integrity" of Czechoslovakia...
...World War, but I feel convinced that all dispute and trouble can be settled with good will and united effort." But shrewd Queen Wilhelmina, with a good share of her $5,000,000 annual income coming from her eastern lands, trusts little in "good will and united effort" to safeguard them. Recently she saw to it that the native garrisons were increased, that a new 8,000-ton cruiser was laid down for service in the Far East and that the number of formidable Dornier flying boats in The Netherlands Indies Naval Air Service was increased to 42. And last...
...control ought to be centred where the President and his State, War and Navy Departments could keep an eye on it. Both bills were passed, and from joint committee conferences the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 emerged with most of the Administration-backed features retained. But one last safeguard against complete White House domination of the authority had been stamped on the final draft by Pat McCarran. No member of the authority except its administrator may be dismissed except for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office...
...bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
Others had heard those words. Another voice, not so golden, not so sonorous, not so fluid, came back to the Vagabond. "These are serious times. Liberty is crumbling over two-thirds of the world. . . . The ultimate safeguard of liberty is the independence of the judiciary. . . . I give you a motto: 'Hands off the Supreme Court...