Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doom of Laval' Because of the difference between Britons and Frenchmen, the Laval Cabinet was not able to defend itself by the methods which the Baldwin Cabinet successfully employed. Both Cabinets had been pledged, as a whole and up to the hilt, to secure immediate peace between Italy and Ethiopia by means of negotiations taking their point of departure from The Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that...
...iron rings, dropped them into her handbag. Then in a low voice she broadcast: "These rings, symbols of our first joys, symbols of our extreme renunciation now, make the purest offering to our country. With them we invoke before God victory for the young sons of Italy who defend rights which are sacred. We pray for the triumph of Roman civilization in Africa...
Much of the speech in which officially Mephistophelean Sam proceeded to defend himself was hard-hitting, fact-marshaling and perhaps gave the lead to the future Ethiopian policy of Britain (see p. 10). Its climax came in a passage which caused Orator Hoare to brush the tears from his eyes while additional tears welled in the eyes of Peaceman Chamberlain and many another M. P. The passage: "I ask myself, looking back, whether I have a guilty conscience or whether my conscience is clear. I say with all humility to the House that my conscience is clear...
railroad did not defend the Bankhead...
...Government was back in the Supreme Court this week to defend AAA in the second of its two cases. First of the AAA cases was the suit of Hoosac Mills to be excused from paying processing and floor taxes on the ground that AAA is unconstitutional. The hearing, which began week before (TIME, Dec. 16), concluded last week when onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, after arguing that processing taxes were "robbing Peter the processor to pay Paul the producer," dropped his voice and declared...