Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counsel for the Delaware & Hudson R. R. in its effort to retain a lease on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh. He had been engaged to help defend minority Ford stockholders, other than Senator James Couzens, in the government's futile attempt to levy extra taxes on them. He had argued and lost the Interborough's 7¢ fare case in the Supreme Court. He was special attorney for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in his successful ouster of Col. Robert Wright Stewart from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He had defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York...
Vainly the Directors sought to defend their policies. They asked the "Mother of Parliaments" to tide them over with a loan of $402,000 and to guarantee their liabilities, this to stop a run which had started on the Bank. Gravely legislators whose Parliament has stood for just five months less than 1,000 years pondered the Directors' plea. It was in June 930 that the Parliament, or Althing, was founded. In June 1930 two complete steamerloads of Icelandic-Americans will sail from Manhattan for Reykjavik, bearing a $50,000 goodwill statue of Leif Ericson, gift of the baby Congress...
Stump-speakers to defend socialism when the weather gets warm are being trained by the Harvard Socialist Club. Men and women from colleges in Boston and the vicinity are being tutored in the style that will enable them to shout down all muttered objections at the meetings they intend to address later. The plan to outtalk the balky Boston police who hitherto have thwarted the cause of honest labor...
...instant reaction of Statesman Stimson and his colleagues was strongly in the negative, since capital ships have always been "the backbone of the U. S. Navy." They seemed to fear that Mr. MacDonald was trying to put them in the highly awkward position of being forced to defend the right of the U. S. to build the very biggest, most costly, most palpably menacing type of ship...
...name to get the railway fare home because she thinks her mother is dying. Her mother is well enough to quarrel with her. and Joy goes back to London. gets a job as companion to an old lady in a private asylum. There she does not know how to defend herself from the doctor, is fired again, meets her gigolo, whom she has thought of day and night, and is happy with him for 24 hours. He is the biggest cad in the whole book, which ends appropriately in an unfinished conversation between the gigolo and Joy. in which...