Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...when it may lead to a mischievous act. That is the only restriction we would place on free speech. Our country is in a peculiar condition on account of its heterogeneous population. Foreigners, illiterates, and negroes form a large percentage of our population and it is our duty to protect these classes against the radical agitator preaching force and violence. More than that, we must protoect the American people against this vicious propaganda which will cause them to commit acts of violence, which the agitator is too cowardly to commit. This danger to the American people must be eliminated
...chief of the Defense Section of its Research Division he directed the development of chemical absorbents to be used in gas masks, a task of immense importance and difficulty. Under his immediate direction were also developed a salve to be used on the body as a protection against mustard gas, and a gas mask which could be used in submarines to protect men against carbon monoxide gas. Since last June he has been in charge of the research work of the nitrates division of the Ordnance Department, and in this position has been studying the task of putting the large...
...popular failure to understand the most important function of a university. Above all, the undergraduate must learn to apply himself to his work and to choose between the various ideas and theories which are presented to him in the classroom and outside. It is all very well to protect the preparatory school youth from pernicious doctrines, but if the college student is to be guarded from the danger of standing on his own feet, it is hard to see how he is ever to learn to think for himself...
...part of a general movement to protect those members of the community who are neither part of the capitalist nor the labor organizations, a middle-class trade union has been formed in New York State. The situation which has given rise to this new movement is easy to understand. Capital and labor have been battling against each other without any regard for the community, prices have soared, everywhere the burden has fallen on the consumer. But a middle-class trade union will only open another antagonism...
Radicals contend that society is dividing into two rival classes; the middle-class trade unionists would apparently split it into three. If they are aiming, as they assert, to protect the consumer, they have overlooked the fact that capitalists and laborers are also consumers, who share the public interest equally with those persons who are eligible for middle-class trade unionism...