Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Problem of Japan's 1933 maneuvers was how to defend the Empire from an enemy fleet supposed to have seized the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan received as mandates from the League of Nations and has declined to give up since she resigned from the League (TIME, April 3). Solving this problem took nearly a month, cost the hard-pressed Japanese Treasury some $2,700,000 and employed almost every ship, almost every station in the Japanese navy. For several days the Emperor himself commanded the defense forces. What the results of the maneuvers were Japanese referees would...
...Jacobs, said he had advised her not to play, described some of her ailments: "Acute inflamed gall-bladder . . . heart condition not as good as it should have been . . . constantly under treatment." Dr. Chalmers said that Miss Jacobs had played only because of "her sporting idea that a champion should defend her title," that during the final she had sustained herself with whiskey capsules...
Sheriff Shamblin blamed last week's lynchings on the interference of the International Labor Defense. Two of its New York lawyers had been sent to help defend the Negroes. They were ruled out of court fortnight ago on the grounds that the prisoners had not retained them. So high ran mob feeling against the lawyers that it took a troop of guardsmen to get them out of Alabama alive. The International Labor Defense last week made public a telegram sent to Governor Miller, holding Judge Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Shamblin directly responsible for the lynching, said they could...
...Mickey Walker retired as middle-weight champion, his title went, after an elimination tournament last winter, to a lean, stubborn, hard-muscled New Yorker named Ben Jeby, who in all his fights showed much more courage than finesse. Last week in New York Jeby had his first chance to defend his championship against a really high-grade opponent. Barrel-chested Lou Brouillard, of Worcester, Mass., much the same type fighter except that he is lefthanded, came running out of his corner in the first round and planted two lefts on a chin that Jeby's previous opponents have found...
...Dropped all regular business to cry "Shame! Shame! The liberty of a British subject has been violated!" when Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour tried clumsily to defend three Scotland Yard detectives who had mistakenly seized a small and wholly innocent subject of George V just outside Victoria Station...