Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross a deadline and commence hostilities, the defensive Blacks, surmising that the attack's spearhead would aim at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor naval base, sent skeleton columns of soldiers, sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris Wells, commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department...
Being a native Memphian, though not a resident now, it is a privilege and pleasure to defend that good city's name...
...committee, Secretary Mellon chose a man even younger than Impeacher Patman. As a young clerk "Alex" Gregg entered the Treasury in 1920, became Solicitor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, retired in 1927. Last week Lawyer Gregg, now out in private practice, arose before the Judiciary Committee to defend his chief...
...existing funds are concerned, the University will doubtless continue to defend itself by rotten logic. It ought to avoid prolonging the embarassment of its position by asking that future gifts be made without restrictions. By refusing restricted gifts the University can prevent the recurrence of the difficulty. Only in this way can it eliminate the questionable practices so ineffectually camouflaged in the President's report...
...broke the power of China in North Manchuria by routing fleet General Ma Chan-shan and capturing Tsitsihar (TIME, Nov. 30). That was easy. General Ma had no effective artillery and only 23,000 Chinese soldiers. Chinchow last week looked hard-that is if its 84,000 Chinese defenders would fight. Japanese scouting planes reported two separate systems of Chinese entrenchments defending Chinchow, complete with 58 pieces of artillery strategically placed. The Chinese "First Line," a series of trenches 20 mi. north of Chinchow, aimed to stop the Japanese advance at the Taling River Bridge on the Peiping-Mukden Railway...