Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman who tried to defend the five Japanese! Would that there were millions more like her! Americans are already breeding another war with the brand of intolerance shown by the people...
...green-walled courtroom in Washington's Federal District Court building was small (40 x 38 ft.) for the largest sedition trial in U.S. history.* The ever-present question before the court was big: can a democracy defend itself legally...
Charlton turned his typewriter against British entertainers who visited troops for only three weeks at a time. His special target was Britain's middle-aged comic music-hall darling, Grade Fields. White hall's brass hats rushed to defend her, demanded that the News be suppressed, declared that Winston Churchill "felt it unfair" that Gracie "should have been singled out." Monty was told that "certain other articles have not met with his [Churchill's] approval...
...Then last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Breckenridge, onetime Democrat and onetime close friend of Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General MacArthur, at the height of the interventionist -isolationist debate: "You have asked my military opinion as to whether the time has come for America to give continued and further aid to England in the fight for civilization. The history of failure...
...debating squad from Clark University will meet a two-man team consisting of Ellis Kaplan '46 and Robin Worthington '47, from the Harvard Debating Council on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The Crimson debaters will defend the negative in the question: "Resolved, That the federal government supervise and support public education below the college level." The debate will take place in the Lowell House Janitor Common Room...