Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan (TIME, Nov. 2). This choice, however, was not made definite last week and the new Government was strongly urged to "fight Japan" by one of China's doughtiest war lords, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang who offered to swing his private army into the fight and attempt to defend Chinchow (see below...
...History is no respecter of persons. . . . But to employ such material in publicly attacking a person's past life when he is engaged in high public duties and virtually powerless to defend himself, is unfair, unsportsmanlike and detrimental to the public interest. . . . The only purpose of the publication seems to be to provide profit to persons of unsavory reputation through satisfying morbid and idle curiosity...
...French position: France would never allow Germany's private debts to come ahead of Reparations. Revision of Reparations could only be accompanied by a corresponding reduction in War debts (TIME, Dec. 7). Faced with Dr. Melchior's gloomy figures in Basle, French Delegate Charles Rist did his best to defend the Laval position by stating that, even if the Melchior figures were correct, they merely proved that business in Germany was so uncertain that now was no time to decide on Germany's capacity...
...suffering from the weight of a tremendous indebtedness contracted under the hardest terms. The safety of the State has been endangered by the development of dangerous political, economic and social ideas. . . . The public interest has been subordinated to private interest. . . . "I promise that I have decided to defend the social order and the stability of national institutions regardless of the origin or magnitude of any threatening danger...
...strong Harvard class team will defend its championship in the Intercollegiate Class League today when the annual tournament begins in New York City. The Crimson will have to defeat the best chess players from Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton to keep the Challenge Trophy which it gained last year after a long and difficult struggle...