Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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indignation gripped the Texas lawmakers. Up rose Representative T. H. McGregor of Austin, an orator of the wild old school, to defend the honor of his House. He called Huey Long "drunk with ignorance and power . . . arrogantly braying from Louisiana. . . . This is the first time in history that ignorance, impudence and insolence combined have crossed the State line and the people of Texas been insulted by political ambition and demagoguery. . . . Have we reached the point in Texas when the Governor of Louisiana can indict the Texas Legislature . . . and let the Governor of Louisiana get away with...
...discovered, after much digging, an ancient statute granting sanity trials to convicted murderers and had one-Gene Geary sent to an asylum instead of hanged. For Capone Gangsters Scalise and Anselmi, accused of killing two policemen, he won acquittal with the plea that they were privileged to defend themselves even against officers of the law. Since his association with Capone he has become much in demand, never takes a case for less than...
...Friendship Society, had been murdered by him just before he committed suicide. While investigation of the "society" was being pressed, unexpected aid came to Killer Powers. One Barratt O'Hara, a Chicago criminal attorney, flew to Clarksburg and aroused the ire of the townspeople by announcing he would defend the prisoner. He refused to tell who had sent him. Clarksburg authorities, fearing an insanity plea, imported Alienist Edward Everett Mayer from the University of Pittsburgh, had him examine the prisoner...
Soldiers & sailors take an oath to defend the best interests of their country, come what may, but Chilean sailors, members of the second greatest fleet in South America, do not care. Early last week rumor ran through the battle fleet at Coquimbo that the Provisional Government of President Manuel Trucco (third since the flight of Dictator Ibanez), was preparing to cut the pay of all noncommissioned ratings as an economy move. Overnight mutiny flared...
...particularly disappointing to the eccentric elderly lady who is reputed to be the richest woman in England, Lady Houston, widow of the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston. When Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald last winter announced that England did not have enough money to enter a team to defend the Schneider Trophy, Lady Houston found the situation unbearable. Although she had been enraged when the Government demanded an $8,000,000 inheritance tax on her husband's estate, she swallowed her pride and said she would give ?100,000 ($485.000) to insure the entrance of a British team. When...