Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power base secure, T.R. kicked off a momentous new-century campaign to save his countrymen from "government by plutocracy or by mob." His first milestone breakthroughs: 1) first successful antitrust suit brought by an American President to dissolve a corporate monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence...
...program today," said the President of the U.S., "can ignore the disclosures of corruption, racketeering and abuse of trust and power in the labor-management field." So saying Dwight Eisenhower last week sent Congress a labor message calling for the most drastic legislation since the Taft-Hartley law to safeguard "the rights of individual workers, the public and management and unions in labor-management relations...
...Only an intensified collective effort can safeguard our peoples and their liberties. We have, together, ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom...
...sooner or later is inevitable. A solution Britain would consider: independence for Cyprus, retention of NATO bases on the island, but no merger with Greece. One of the biggest sticking points is Turkey's increasingly stubborn insistence on partition or the status quo as the only ways to safeguard Cyprus' outnumbered Turkish community. But if good will and determination could find a way, Sir Hugh Foot seemed the man to find...
...itself squarely on the side of free trade in the coming congressional battle by protectionists to end President Eisenhower's tariff-cutting powers, which are up for renewal next June 30. Rather than revoke the powers, said the council, Congress should extend them "with adequate authority to safeguard vital interests of domestic American industries in line with the national interest...