Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvement over your report on the St. Louis meeting, which reached low-water mark in selection of topics for reporting. As a member of the board of trustees, I think the reference to the "tight, autocratic board" is a fine compliment. We regard trust funds as trust funds and safeguard them accordingly...
Last week the Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the First Deficiency Bill, containing a $1,425,000,000 appropriation for relief, with only a few minor amendments to the measure passed by the House. One of them, as a safeguard against possible unconstitutionality of WPA, shifted control of the relief fund from WPAdministrator Hopkins to President Roosevelt. Another, aimed at preventing any more such huge false starts as 'Quoddy Dam and the Florida Canal, provided that no relief project could be begun unless sufficient funds to complete it were set aside from this year's appropriation. When this...
When Mr. Taylor first came to the University, "the" telephone was installed in an empty office in the basement of University Hall, carefully kept under lock and little used key to safeguard against idle curiosity. A chosen few were permitted access to the contraption, but even they could find little use for it except in ordering supplies from the more progressive Boston firms then connected. With more use, the locality of the phone was changed to a closet upstairs, accompanied by its lock and key. Finally, is science marched on, the University had three instruments installed on the party line...
...extensive smuggling of Japanese goods into North China," declared the Foreign Secretary, "have been engaging the attention of the Government for some time and have formed the subject of representations to the Chinese and Japanese Governments. The Government is actively considering what further steps will be taken to safeguard Bntish trade in North China...
...Italian Government has every desire to safeguard the efficacy of the Red Cross emblem. Severe orders have already been given to our troops to that effect...