Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Authority. In Cleveland, Ike Lee admitted selling policy slips, tried to defend himself by quoting Scripture-Daniel 8: 25, "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand...
...Little." Then the Gimo laid down the new line of strategy, assayed the nation's resources to win the ultimate battle. "We have made serious military mistakes," he conceded. No longer would his armies attempt to defend all of the nation at once. They would strike, with superior strength, at strategic points of their own choosing, henceforth fight a war of "big-eat-little." The immediate objective was a limited one: "I guarantee within six months to annihilate all Communists below the Yellow River." Had he written off Manchuria? He had not ("in 60 years the Reds will...
...wish and act of the U.S. will hereafter matter to the Western world. Never before have the attitudes and capacities of so many other nations mattered so much to the U.S. What awaits Americans in the Europe which they have undertaken to preserve, restore, and if need be to defend...
...exhorted Italians not to let themselves be scared away from the polls by Communist rough stuff. His theme: either all will vote freely, or none will vote at all. Shivering in a chill spring wind that swept across the ruins of Monte Cassino, he cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said with imposing understatement: "I am dissatisfied with the present state of public order." Before shepherds of Frosinone, he cried: "If it is a question of force, remember the force...
...action was transferred to a mock court in the Harvard Law School. This week, before a courtroom of Harvardmen, District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have six other students and two recent Harvard Law School graduates among his battery of legal talent. In the preliminary pleadings, Plaintiff Poindexter cited as one of his legal authorities a textbook known as Prosser on Torts. Pooh-poohed Defendant Prosser: "A very inadequate book I once...