Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poverty in California. His instruments will be the CAL, the CAP, and the CAM--California Authority for Land, for Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect them to make Sinclair the next governor of California. Opposition from the Dark Powers is of course foreseen by the prophet, but apparently mostly in the form of attempts to compromise...
...Senator spoke up to defend NRA, but conservative Democrat Glass and radical Democrat Costigan both chimed in on the critical chorus...
Unable to defend himself, snowy-crested French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour was at that moment in Geneva on League of Nations business, but Accuser Henriot got only so far as the Chamber lobby when he was set upon by Minister of Education de Monzie fairly boiling to avenge his honor. Fresh from bed, rheumatic M. de Monzie managed to leap upon the back of M. Henriot and they went down clawing as a dozen deputies of Left and Right pitched into a clothes-tearing tussle, pulled each-other's neckties, knocked off eyeglasses and compared each other...
...filled with tears as she added, "In this I have my father's complete approval. How he would stand with me if he were able." Not her father, who was once famed Haw ("Silver Dollar") Tabor's lawyer, but Miss Thomas' Lawyer Brother George prepared to defend her, take the matter to the Supreme Court if he could...
Because critics derided Soprano Ljungberg's dancing, she undertook next day to defend herself: ''Strauss showed me how he wanted the dance done. Salome isn't a character defined exactly in history. There is no description of how she danced. Strauss told me he didn't want it to be hoppy and jumpy. It was a thought dance in his conception. ... I am not a dancer. I have never studied dancing, but for the opera I do not think that is important. I am willing to do the dance in order to be allowed...