Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books and all its operations are open to him--even displayed to him without asking--in the pages of his daily newspaper. He is an awakened and alert consumer and he knows what he wants and gets it. Whether the people of this country would ever defend their own rights by similar tactics is a question. Meanwhile the more that is heard about co-operatives the better. Marquis Childs has done a splendidly thorough job of telling us about them, and his book is, as Lewis Gannet calls it, "the best political news in years...
This impulse Premier Largo Caballero gave by fairly burning up the wires in a telephone conversation from Valencia with luckless General José Miaja who had been left behind to defend the capital. He rushed from the phone to issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice...
Thomas H. Eliot '28, legal adviser of the Social Security Board, will explain the purpose and actions of the Board at Dunster House Monday evening. It is expected that he will also defend the Social Security...
...Yandenberg replied: "That was a supremely solemn obligation, Mr. Roosevelt. . . . I ask you how one can ignore Constitutional doubts, however reason able, and yet preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Belknap after the Secretary had been convicted of accepting bribes, and during the Whiskey Ring exposure, when his confidential secretary Babcock was on trial, only the stubborn interference of Fish and other Cabinet officers prevented Grant from rushing to St. Louis to defend his disgraceful assistant in person...