Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, 13 months before he was to defend his Presidential title against an as yet unnamed Republican challenger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt jogged out of Washington for a 3,000-mile stretch of political roadwork. The odds, while narrowing, still favored him. But just as all champions must go barnstorming to keep their names before the fans. Champion Roosevelt felt it was not too early for him. to go through his paces for the benefit of some 50,000,000 voters who will turn thumbs up or down on him in 1936. Simultaneously he could gauge the fitness and morale...
...Address No. 2, the President was out to defend Federal spending for Public Works and the principle of Government-in-the-power-business, two more issues he has presented to his 1936 Republican opponents. After paying homage to the dam's 726-ft. height, its 115-mi. lake, its potential 1,835,000 h. p. of electrical energy, he declared...
Since the Greek Premier is sworn to uphold, protect and defend the Greek Republic, M. Tsaldaris wriggled out of that oath by announcing: "I see no great difference between the constitutional Monarchy of Greece as it existed up to 1924 and the Republic. . . . I have known King George for years. . . . He wants happiness for the Greek people...
...blue stands that run the length of International Field at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island. Hurricanes v. Hurlingham was, in a sense, a rehearsal for the matches for the Westchester Cup, No. 1 trophy of the game, which a picked U. S. team will defend in England next June. England lost the Westchester Cup in 1921 and has been trying ineffectually to get it back ever since. Ostensibly, the Hurlingham team that played at Meadow Brook last week was merely one of the seven entered in the Open but actually its members have been campaigning on Long Island...
...Missouri Pacific reorganization Morgan had to defend the interests of bondholders while it was directly interested in the common stock through the Alleghany shares reposing in its vaults?an embarrassing position for which it has been bitterly criticized. To plunge deeper into the Van Sweringen rehabilitation would merely multiply the sources of embarrassment. Thus the Brothers Van Sweringen turn back to the Midwest for their bankers & backers...