Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life Insurance, Lubricating Oil. Every Government request for money must have the Budget Bureau's approval before it is passed along to Congress. Few get by intact. But the Bureau itself must also appear before the House Appropriations Committee to explain and defend its own request. This year Director Smith asked for $2,172,000 - nearly twelve times the 1938 appropriation - to run his Bureau of 571 employes during fiscal 1944. In justification, Smith listed a few of the things that he and his staff of experts have been up to since the nation went to war. Among other...
...Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, police had prepared sandbag barricades and machine-gun positions. To General Domingo Martinez, Buenos Aires Police Chief, President Castillo gave orders to defend the city. But when the troops marched in the police made it clear that they were acting "to maintain order only" -there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General...
...detective testified that, when Mrs. Dempsey asked her husband what he was doing there, Mr. Dempsey's reply was: "I'm following you and that rat, and you're a no good rat yourself, running around with a rat like that, and me out trying to defend my country." Next on the stand, Mrs. Dempsey's side...
...lacks sufficient tanks and heavy armaments, is woefully weak in fighter planes, which were ordered from the U.S. in 1940 but later diverted to China. When German military power was at its height on the Continent, Thörnell took a poor view of Sweden's ability to defend herself for any length of time. But with the Swedish navy of light cruisers, destroyers and 50-knot-an-hour motor torpedo boats to harass the enemy, Thörnell could risk a war-provided there was likelihood of Allied success in Norway spilling over quickly to his assistance. Gallup...
...Rumanians are also worried by their neighbors and territorial rivals, Hungary and Bulgaria. According to one report, Dictator Antonescu's nephew, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu, recently threatened to resign with the entire Cabinet unless enough Rumanian troops were withdrawn from Russia to defend the Bulgarian frontier. Rumania has already lost part of Transylvania to Hungary...