Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile in either direction the road was black with their automobiles. There was little sobbing in the crowd, much angry muttering. Posted in the yard was a sign which read: THIS IS WHERE PUBLIC SERVICE SENT THEIR COLD-BLOODED KILLERS TO SHOOT INNOCENT CITIZENS WHO SOUGHT TO DEFEND THEIR HOME. In the drab parlor, where John Crempa and his young son and daughter, all arrested last fortnight, sat fiercely brooding, a Roman Catholic priest intoned the service for the dead. Then Sophie Crempa's corpse was lifted in its coffin through a window, lowered to the yard...
...Defend your country against the inferior Italian invader. . . . God will be with us. All up! For the Emperor! For the country...
Last week 8,000 people crowded Hillsdale's fair grounds to see Contractor John Adrian's record-holders, Flaxie & Dan, brought from Williamsville. N. Y.. defend their laurels against their old rivals, George H. Statler's Ohio team of roan and sorrel Belgians, weighing 4,700 Ib. For five years one or the other of these teams has always held the world's record. Once they broke it three times in one day and they have dragged it up to unbelievable heights...
...States bonds. Until he was hastily summoned from his dental office to meet Lawyer Davis in court, Dentist Lautenbach had never seen his eminent attorney. "I submit," said Mr. Davis, when challenged by the New Dealers, "that I do not have to have social relations with my client to defend his interests...
Professionally, the greatest regret of Dean Pound's career was his service on the National (Wickersham) Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement, whose curious straddle on Prohibition he did his best to defend. Personally, the time in Washington was well spent, for between sessions he courted his second wife. With her he has lately taken junkets to Europe and Hawaii, will probably find time for more after his retirement...