Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this sort of sabotage the University can hardly defend itself, and the effectiveness of the great service that all the public and educational institutions of the United States render American citizens, lies at the mercy of the government. Although the powers that be may restrict business activity, inflate the currency, and lower the purchasing power of the dollar, they should consider the effects that such a policy has on all those institutions that depend upon fixed returns from invested capital...
...foreign diplomats up the Yangtze, Generalissimo Chiang brought down the river enormous levies of fresh Chinese troops, and these were flung against the advancing Japanese. General Pau Chung-hsi, chief of staff, advised that from a military point of view it would be best to make no attempt to defend Nanking. Generalissimo Chiang, who during the past seven years has spent millions embellishing his capital and mak-ing it the bright symbol of New China, unhesitatingly ordered Nanking's defense at any cost. "One day we intend to erect upon ruins," clarioned Chiang, "a new national structure which shall...
King Leopold closed by affirming that Belgium knows she will always find in Britain "that sure support which, joined to our own unshakable determination to defend ourselves, would successfully repel all danger from our soil...
...When James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney fought William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to defend his world's heavyweight championship in 1927, he got $990,000, Dempsey $425,000. Dempsey now prospers as the head of a big, bustling restaurant on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. Tunney prospers in a different way. In 1928 he married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank...
...France a release from Belgium's obligation to aid them, while they agreed to remain bound to aid Belgium in case she is attacked. This coup by King Leopold in person, his Minister in Berlin followed up by quietly obtaining from Hitler a pledge that Germany, too, will defend Belgium in case of unprovoked aggression ("TIME...