Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responding to this long-awaited invitation in the New York County Court House last week, the slick incumbent of "the third biggest job in the U. S." glanced alertly about him to orient friend & foe, shot his broad, lopsided campaign smile, sat down jauntily to defend himself against gravest suspicions of his official conduct. As he looked around him in the packed, hot chamber, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker could see friends aplenty: Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney's wife, a host of rowdy Tammanyites and the hard-headed Democratic minority of the Legislative investigation...
Going on to defend the professional coaching under the old system, Stevens maintained that the paid coach is an export, that he has to know his job, and finally, that so far they have proved satisfactory. Also under the new program, if Yale were not to scout the teams which scout her, an extremely embarrassing and unjust situation would arise...
...other country in the whole world. Nevertheless, if a war-and I am speaking now not as an official person (for I'm a plain citizen now, I hold no official position)-if a war should be thrust upon us by formal declaration or by surprise we shall defend ourselves...
...truly liberal. Most of the officers of the Club feel that this action is not to be construed as being an abandonment of the so-called open, free, and nonpartisan discussion policy. But let us not forget that the National Student League is admittedly sympathetic with, and proposes to defend a great majority of the Communists' social and economic principles. Although it is true that as Mr. Hartshorne has said, the Liberal Club is what its members wish to make it, nevertheless can the members of the Club consider themselves liberal if they affiliate with an organization which has such...
...Against Coca-Cola. Last week Lawyers Edward Sidney Rogers and James Fulton Hoge prepared to defend their big client, Coca-Cola Co., in two damage suits. More important of the two was an action of $5,000,000 brought by Loft, Inc., candymaker and seller. Loft charged that Coca-Cola attempted to interfere with a Loft contract to sell Pepsi-Cola in its stores, threatened to attack the value of Loft stock ($2.50 last week) if the company would not sell Coca-Cola, sent agents to Loft soda fountains to hurt Loft's business by slander and intimidations. Filing...