Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the worst problem is the 300,000 refugees from guerrilla country. These peasants know that the Government has started the forced evacuation of a quarter-million civilians from the countryside because the Army cannot defend them, and carry out an offensive at the same time. And they wonder how they are going to live this winter crowded into mud huts, shanties and abandoned buildings on Government relief, which will provide them with less than a pound of bread and about 15? in cash a day. The huts in which they live, unlike the airfields, are not "winterized...
Despite a search the length and breadth of the land, Law School Forum leaders have been unable to find a single speaker who will appear on a Harvard platform to defend the House Un-American Activities Committee...
Rebecca, the haunting first wife in Novelist Daphne du Maurier's chilling best-seller (and movie), was haunting Novelist du Maurier. Six years after she was charged with lifting the plot from a Brazilian novelist (who later dropped the suit), Writer du Maurier had to defend herself against the same charge by a U.S. writer. In a Manhattan court, the son of the late Edwina Levin MacDonald (who died after she brought suit) charged that Rebecca was a steal from 1) his mother's novel, Blind Windows, 2) her short story, I Planned to Murder My Husband...
...treatment of Russian news. Wrote Hearst: "We no longer have to give so much space to Russia [or] to the probable destructive attack upon our nation by Russia. The thing of importance now, is ... the plan of universal military service. . .. Every American must be a soldier ready ... to defend [the U.S.] from annihilation. . . . The President must call Congress to deal promptly with this vital question...
...itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis B. Mayer, a dear friend a Hearst, has to defend him self against Communist charges...