Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly than a prevalent suspicion that its guardians care more for their own consistency than for human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary concern for justice without which no law is worthy of respect and no government worthy of obedience
...British residents in the French quarter expressed uneasiness lest the French intended to allow Chiang Kaishek, the Chinese Nationalist Generalissimo, to assume control of the French Concession. Since U. S. and British marines were heaping up more sandbags and stringing more barbed wire every day to defend their quarter, the attitude of the French and Japanese caused extreme resentment among Anglo-Saxons at Shanghai...
...last year's champions only two will wrestle tonight to defend their titles. These are Milton Krook 2L and H. M. Kullman '27 The other 1926 champions were K. C. Williams 3L, H. G. Dorman '26, H. P. Wood '27, T. D. Howe '28 and S. S. Wilson...
...conclusion that it is receiving general condemnation. An Associated Press dispatch carries the headline. "Majority Opposed to Hopkins Ideas". Almost without exception this "majority opposed" is made up of professional coaches. When the source of a man's salary is attacked he will of course arise to defend it. While the personal bias thus introduced is quite natural it destroys any weight the opinion might otherwise have...
...came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless against the conquering Southern "Nationalist" or "Cantonese...