Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legitimacy of this commemoration has been contested, and it has been said that republican governments have been no less firm than were their predecessors in defense of public order. It is the public order. It is the public sovereignty, now firmly established by the franchise that the republican governments defend in maintaining public order. These men of 1830 did not have this guarantee. Furthermore their revolution was neither directed nor subsidized from abroad...
...anti-Treaty members of the Foreign Relations Committee and the President, who had explained the papers desired and withheld were not solely U. S. property but belonged also to the other countries negotiating (TIME, June 16 et seq.). But now the whole Senate was urged to consider, to defend its constitutional power and privilege as a treaty-maker co-equal with the President...
...until a few days later did real trouble begin. Some 500 deputies and senators met as a self-constituted National Assembly, took a solemn oath "to defend the Constitution and defend our liberties even if it means sacrificing our lives...
Last fortnight Yellow Taxi Corp., New York (Regent 1000), largest, oldest (1921) in New York City, went to court to defend its 1,250 cabs. Yellow complained that General Motors Corp, had coerced railroad and steamship lines into awarding concessions to G. M.'s subsidiary, Terminal Cab Corp. Yellow obtained from Supreme Court Justice Richard P. Lydon a temporary injunction to bar Terminal Cab from operating a concession recently obtained (at Yellow's expense) from the Furness-Bermuda Line, Pier 95, North River. Last week Counsel Henry B. Hogan for General Motors denied all charges, affirmed that...
Free Speech. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Record engaged the law firm headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, onetime U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, to defend it against contempt of court charges. Record editorials and cartoons had smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...