Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income taxes by $4.8 billion reached the House last week, Minority Leader Sam Rayburn did his best as a Canute. He cried that it was reckless, in these times, to invite deficits: "Hadn't we better stay in a position where we will have the money to defend our shores?" But the House was in no mood for debate or delay. When the vote came, 84 Democrats deserted the Administration. The overwhelming tide of passage...
...inconceivable that the U.S. should admit the possibility of the Communists taking over Italy. 'Yes,' Americans say, 'but suppose the Italians vote Communist? Suppose they freely choose Communism? How can we interfere then without refuting the very principles of democracy which we are proposing to defend...
...Jews seemed dead set on fighting. The Jewish Agency announced that it would proceed with the establishment of a Jewish government in Palestine. Said the Agency Executive Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "It is we who will decide the fate of Palestine. . . . The Jewish state exists because we defend...
King Paul I gave a gallant but somewhat naive interview to" a newsman from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I don't think a [general] war will take place in the near future," said the king. "But in the unforeseen event of foreign aggression, Greece will defend herself to the last man independently of outside help, and if we have to fight alone we will...
...appears that Mr. Cobb would defend the hecklers on still another ground, for he states that "the total disregard for the movements of the Politburo ... by most of the speakers showed all too clearly where their true sentiments lie." Besides being logically ridiculous, the statement's implications are patently false. At least six of the nine speakers are well known to be unqualifiedly opposed to Communism; four of them prefaced their speeches with declarations in support of the Marshall Plan; three of these represented groups which in effect bar Communists from membership. In the light of these facts, the reference...