Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscriber to TIME, FORTUNE and THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM may I voice my regret at the manner in which you abuse a man who cannot defend himself: King Carol of Rumania (TIME...
...investigate the Townsend Plan consists of four Democratic and four Republican members. This Democratic generosity was due to the majority's desire to have Republicans share equal responsibility for the investigation. Republicans were glad to share the responsibility because, practically speaking, the investigation is a move to defend sitting members of Congress from the attacks of the Townsendite candidates...
...CHARGES HE IS ANSWERING. In other words common sense governs the situation. For instance, if an assailant were to throw a small book at you, you would not be legally justified in firing a gun in self defense of your person. . . . So it is with the right to defend your reputation...
...since England's first six Edwards were Kings neither of Scotland nor of the United Kingdom. In many things His Majesty must defer to his Scottish subjects. Indeed the first act of any British Monarch after his accession is to take the oath by which he swears to defend the Church of Scotland. Last week's row about "Edward II," however, was simply ignored by Edward VIII. He officially designated his mother "Queen Mary" and she will therefore not be known as the Queen Mother or Dowager Queen, designations out of keeping with the great warmth of British...
Engineering News-Record jumped to defend excavators everywhere by editorially calling the Gauley Bridge furore "fantastic bunk." On the other hand, "The time has come," declared that journal, "to bring out authoritatively all the facts of silicosis hazards." When the inquest was petering out for lack of wind last week young Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia appeared before the House Committee with a commonsense statement: "This was and is American industry's 'Black Hole of Calcutta.' I have had first-hand knowledge of it for several years-despite a combine of big-business silence. Unhappily...