Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Albizu Campos walked into the office of the Federal District Attorney, said that he heard he was to be arrested, offered to surrender. His offer was declined. Next day the U. S. struck. Senor Albizu Campos was at court preparing to defend the sole survivor of last autumn's bombing expedition to the University, when he was asked to go over and be arrested. Six of his followers, including his personal secretary, the party secretary and two poets, were also arrested. While the Puerto Rican National Guard was held under arms in its armories, ready...
...cinema theatres up & down the United Kingdom newsreels showing Adolf Hitler's troops rupturing the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by marching into the Rhineland were received with murmurs of approval, applause and even cheers as last week opened. Newsreels of Poilus marching up to defend the French frontier were almost everywhere received by Britons in silence. Inquiring reporters for Baron Beaverbrook stopped 5,000 citizens to ask: "Do you on the whole prefer the French or the Germans?" The answer, blazoned next day in London's Daily Express, was that 21% had no preference...
...country rank next seems to show an instinctive linking of personal safety with community security, as in primitive societies. The physical origins are less apparent in the "honor" situations, least apparent in protection of property. But the investigators note that women show a stronger urge than men to defend "honor of self" - an attitude whose biological implications are obvious. Otherwise their ranking is the same...
Germain G. Glidden '36 will defend his intercollegiate squash racquets championship at the Trinity College courts in Hartford today and tomorrow. Glidden won the national title on February 24 but it is expected that Richard W. Gilder '36 will press him hard this week...
...Stubbsmen, apparently satisfied with the 8-0 whitewashing they gave Princeton Saturday, and seeking not to overdo it with the Yale game coming up, didn't really go at it hammer and longs till the going got rough. And the fans were satisfied to watch them artfully defend the two goal lead until Ken Willis, the Tiger captain, scored when Ash Emerson let a side-shot bounce into the not halfway through the last canto...