Word: apologist
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...ears, who has followed three stars: Lázaro Cárdenas, Joseph Stalin and Lombardo Toledano, not necessarily in that order. The job of Mexico's official labor leader under Cárdenas was congenial enough to him, but not so congenial has been the position of apologist to the left for Avila Camacho's middle-of-the-road administration. By CTM's constitution he had to retire this year. For months it has been an open secret that his successor would be the more conservative Fidel Velazquez, who helped him found...
Nonplussed, Attorney Ironside could not but be a weak apologist, based the defense on moral issues. In developing Associated, said he, Hopson had worked tirelessly for the common weal. He was a creature of the wildcat '20s, should be judged in the light of those times...
...their employes. Said he: "We are proud to be an integral part, however small or large, of an institution . . . where there is noblesse oblige on the part of the master and fealty on the part of the man. Feudal the Times-Star may be, but its feudalism needs no apologist. . . . Without humility, we are grateful for the fine conditions that surround...
...need for "guidance" is very great, but Mr. Wolff's solicitude, if not suspect, is at least superficial. His attempt to muscle in on an educational policy already started by the University would amount to impertinence, were not his profession in such dire need of an apologist...
...Foreign Minister Anthony Eden as one more visiting Englishman. But it was perfectly clear that they would meet this week as one democrat talking to another in an autocrats' world, for Mr. Eden quickly made it obvious that he had come to the U. S. as an apologist for Britain. Personable Mr. Eden had many an advantage for his job. Having quit as Neville Chamberlain's Foreign Secretary because he opposed the Chamberlain policy, he could talk easily to U. S. citizens who did not approve it. He also could expect respect for whatever...