Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...searched high and low thru all my back numbers of TIME and could not find the article which I am certain I read. As I desire to vindicate myself and also defend the veracity of TIME, please send me the copy or a clipping which contains this statement...
...King's Speech," actually the ministerial declaration of the Baldwin Cabinet, proved short, vague, dull last week, when read by His Majesty to Parliament. The Cabinet declared through the King-Emperor that: I. The Government remains inflexible in its program of sending troops to China to defend British interests, if and where necessary, but is resolved not to wage war formally with China. II. The Government wishes to renew the Anglo-Chinese treaties "on an equitable basis." III. The Government will introduce during the present Parliamentary session two notable bills: 1) an act to defend British cinema makers against...
Premier Stanley Baldwin: I contemplated war on China it would have been different, and a larger force would have been needed. But we have sent the force which we have been advised would be necessary to defend our people in the international concession at Shanghai. . . . Every foreign country is aware that evacuation is out of the question at Shanghai. You can evacuate a small population of foreigners in a place like Hankow,* but at Shanghai you cannot...
...hearkened to cinema exhibitors who want a law passed permitting cinema shows on Sunday. Last week the legislators heard from Archbishop Michael Curley of Baltimore, temperate, blunt. Said the Archbishop: A Catholic survey of 404 motion pictures showed this number of scenes-marital infidelity, 117; struggles of girls to defend honor, 113; divorce as remedy for marital ills, 38; drinking, 140; smoking by girls, 82; indecent dancing, 97; immodest dress, 172; undue sex familiarity, 192. The legislators, he summarized, "should get rid of smut on week days before transferring it to Sunday...
...other journal will defend Boston's single woman of spirit, the Crimson must remain a single champion of local genius. In a lady ectoplasm cannot be treated lightly...