Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fear among capitalists that their money was not safe in Germany produced a "flight of capital," which strained, almost sprained the credit resources of the Reichsbank. President Hans Luther had received a new credit of $100,000.000 from New York and other banks to defend his position. Ordinarily a hard pressed government which receives such a credit is able to stretch it over the requirements of months?as Italy did when she got $100,000.000 some years ago. Last week Dr. Luther found that he had run through the $100.000.000 literally in a few week?! Hoover and Laval must...
After winning the National championship, Doeg married, set to work on his father-in-law's Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion...
Because, 1) she is the U. S. women's champion, and 2) Helen Wills Moody decided that she would not "have time" to defend her title at Wimbledon last week, Betty Nuthall was the favorite to win the British Women's Championship. Her chief competitors were Helen Jacobs of Santa Monica, Calif., second ranking U. S. woman player in 1929; cocktail-drinking, tango-dancing Senorita Elia ("Lili") de Alvarez, who twice lost to Helen Wills in the Wimbledon finals; and Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, first ranking U. S. woman player, a Californian with a hard left-handed drive...
...first set, thereafter was outplayed and lost 6-4, 6-2 Waiting to play her quarter-final match against Helen Jacobs, who had beaten Mrs. Kathleen McKane Godfree the same day, Betty Nuthall reiterated her intention of coming to the U. S. this summer to defend her U. S. championship. When they played, three days later, Betty Nuthall lost...
James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., eldest son of the bride, who married a servant at his family's fishing camp at Grand Anse, Que., three years ago. In 1921 he and the groom, longtime friend of the family, searched for evidence to aid Mrs. Stillman defend herself against her husband's divorce suit. Last week he was unable to leave his studies at Harvard Medical School, did not witness his mother's marriage ceremony. But his wife was her mother-in-law's maid of honor...