Word: apologist
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...fame and fortune Goldman Sachs reached an unenviable peak in 1929 under the domination of Waddill Catchings, leading apologist of the New Era, co-author of The Road to Plenty. It was the imperious Mr. Catchings who led the conservative old house into the investment trust fireworks of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge Corp. When his road to plenty ran up a tree, Mr. Catchings got out, joining his old friend, Utilitarian Harrison Williams...
...Prohibited by State laws from incurring any debt whatsoever, he has, therefore, "balanced the budget" there:--that is if one passes quickly over the matter of $400,000,000 worth of Federal relief funds poured into Kansas. As was admitted last week by William Allen White, Landon's chief apologist, the state ranks 48th out of 48 in regard to State help for State schools, a situation which may in part explain Kansas' miserable record in the matter of education...
...Hepatica and four out of five of all the best-publicized drugs in the U. S. medicine cabinet last week congregated in Manhattan for an evangelical meeting of the Proprietary Association. This organization, headed for 22 years by Castoria's Frank Anthony Blair, is spokesman, defender and apologist for an industry which annually makes and sells $300,000,000 worth of medicines, antiseptics, and hygienic supplies...
Until last week Italy's chief apologist in the House of Lords was Lord Mottistone, a Major General and an old African campaigner himself. Even he seemed shaken by last week's reports but refused to believe stories of the bombing of hospitals...
...history in serial form which patriotic parents still give children in the United Kingdom; Director of Information under Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1917-18); M. P. since 1927 for the Scottish Universities; twice (1933 & 1934) Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland; 32-time novelist and lifelong apologist for War, the meat of many of his romances. Writing weightily upon the great Tolstoy's philosophy of Peace, Jack Buchan roundly postulated: "War, too, has its idealism...