Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf soon will be over the fence. Minister Delbos reassuringly announced: "France stands by her pledged word that she will submit to all sacrifices to sustain mutual obligations under treaties and support all aims to safeguard peace...
Said Benjamin Franklin: "Mechanical thrift for a mechanical age is an essential. The best safeguard for national investments is a nation of investment-minded people. At present, the opportunities for thrift are restricted by the time factor." He was speaking to the Manhattan convention of the Thrift and Security Foundation. He is a descendant of a brother of Patriot Benjamin ("A penny saved . . ."). Franklin, an industrial engineer and business counselor, has a grandson to carry on the name...
...convention in Chicago last week gathered the men who control the third largest U. S. unmanufactured crop export. Largest is cotton, next is tobacco and third is the humble apple. To safeguard this precious fruit the International Apple Association met for the first time 42 years ago in Chicago's Hotel Sherman. Last week, 1,400 strong, the applemen were back at the Sherman with apple problems on their minds, Les Apple Trees Glacé on their tables and on their program plans for using the saga of Johnny Appleseed as a promotion scheme...
...colleagues Justice Seymour placidly observed: "There is very little chance it will pass. But it is on its way, and three years from now it will stand that much better chance of being approved." One purpose of the amendment, he explained, was to safeguard the rights of remarriage of innocent parties in adultery cases who squeamishly bring suits on such grounds as "excessive cruelty." When it was pointed out to him that under the amendment bishops would be free to authorize the remarriage of divorced adulterers as well, Justice Seymour snapped: "Why, no bishop would do that...
...general, the southern mills are in a better position to deal with labor than the northern. An example of this is one particularly prosperous mill in South Carolina, where the employer had taken the trouble to organize his own "mill army" as a safeguard against labor difficulty. When trouble came, he calmly announced to the organizers that if there was any violence, the labor leaders were covered with machine guns and would be summarily dealt with. The organizers decided that they had more pressing business elsewhere...