Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading Japanese newspapers featured brazenly last week a story that Great Britain's helpful attitude toward Japan has been due to "fear that the Japanese Navy might seize both Hong Kong and Singapore which Great Britain could not defend at present." (The famed British naval base at Singapore is incomplete. James Ramsay MacDonald is a Pacifist. Overtaxed Britons are in no mood to pay the cost of fighting Japan...
...class interest. It realizes that in an industrial crisis the machinery of the State is used to suppress by any means the activity of militant working-class unions. And it is with these unions, of which Edith Berkman was a member and organizer, that we sympathize and propose to defend. E. Y. Hartshorne...
...insufficient to express to you our sorrow and sympathy in this bereavement of yours. But we can at least assure you this: No parents could have a more heroic son than Robert who gave up his own life that others might live. He dared Might and died to defend Right for humanity and civilization. To say that he was fighting for China alone would be belittling his gallant and humanitarian deed, because it is for humanity and justice that he died. The name of Robert Short will live long in the scroll of honor of great men, and his meritorious...
...Mouthpiece (Warner), adapted from an unproduced play by Frank J. Collins, is about a lawyer who had good reason to defend criminals for his livelihood. As assistant district attorney, Vincent Day convicts an innocent man for murder and is unable, when he learns of his mistake, to stop the execution. His methods of atoning for his error are brilliant and unscrupulous. He takes up with a collection of rogues, sees to it that they are not penalized for their crimes. Finally a little Southern secretary (Sidney Fox) makes him ashamed of shabby practice...
...brother Lionel a prize from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He is a criminal lawyer named Tom Corrigan, inclined to making cynical observations on the discrepancies between justice and the law. One evening he sees a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) brought into court on a vice charge. He defends her, makes her his mistress. Like Lawyer Day, Lawyer Corrigan is thick with thieves. A political gangster (William Boyd) helps him to be made state's attorney. When called to defend a murderess, Corrigan remarks, "She'd be free tonight if I were her lawyer." Then he obtains...