Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural resonance. There was no mistaking it. It was the voice of Franklin Roosevelt himself and it said: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office as President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...
Thank you for your attention in this matter. It is only because we wish Harvard to defend herself against, or admit the justice of, a growing, though unrecognized, accusation of hypocrisy that we ask this; we do not seek to make unnecessary trouble or embarrassment. E. F. Davis '38, T. V. Marsters...
...Jefferson . . . I know where I'd be, I'd be at the National Democratic Committee headquarters, where I've been for so many years, ready to bat for a success, but I can't see how anybody can expect me to battle for or even defend a failure...
...more successful than Oliver Cromwell's army, or the German Republic, when he tries to solve the paradox of democracy: what to do when the majority of the people oppose democracy. There he writes in unrealities; for if a "democracy," as he suggests, uses force to defend the democratic privileges desired only by a minority, then it is no longer a democracy...
Because he cannot "defend a failure." Mr. Smith announced he was going over to the London camp. Just what this failure amounts to was shown in cold facts by President Roosevelt at Pittsburgh the same evening. The increase in the public debt during the past three year's has been $8,000,000,000, while the increase in the annual national income during that period has been $15,000,000,000. If would be interesting for Mr. Smith and his friends to challenge this $8,000,000,000 as a reasonable price for recovery. During the year ending October...