Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Joe Louis, who left the prizefight ring in 1942 as undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, returned from an overseas tour with plans for his future. The Brown Bomber declared he would go back to boxing after the war, to defend his title "at least once...
...seek to minimize the need for Army and Navy nurses (TIME, Jan. 15), but do defend the civilian nurse and I believe you unjustly criticize her-"Few nurses raised their hands for any kind of military service...
...House forgot all about George Washington and Bill Gallagher, too. Clare Hoffman was barely set on his feet when he began to flail away at the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the Communists. Michigan's Frank E. Hook, supported by C.I.O.-P.A.C. in the last election, broke in to defend his friends. Said he without heat: "The C.I.O. and the P.A.C. are doing more to keep down the Communists than any other group in the United States...
Colombia's Lleras introduced the week's hottest resolution. Backed in principle by the U.S., it would bind all the signers to defend the boundaries and political independence of any American republic attacked from any quarter, within or without the Western Hemisphere. Tacit object: to create a combination in case Argentina should turn aggressor against Chile...
...near Yokohama, to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...