Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VETERANS The Grab In the Senate last week, no Senator rose to defend the President's veto of the disabled veterans' pension bill. The special handiwork of Mississippi's John Rankin and the powerful veterans' lobby, the bill gives $120 each month to crippled ex-G.I.s whose disabilities are in no way connected with their military service (TIME, Aug. 27). The House had already overridden the veto by an overwhelming margin. The Senate promptly followed suit...
...Cicero, is hopping mad over the indictments, especially at the charge against Lawyer Leighton. The three Negroes, Leighton, Edwards and Adams, are accused of "conspiracy to damage property." The grand jury seems to think that it is wrong to rent an apartment in Cicero to a Negro, wrong to defend his rights, but O.K. to burn his furniture and chase him out of town...
...ruler, Philip the Good (1419-67). During a visit to the historical library of France's National Assembly, Winston Churchill was shown the original document condemning to death one Joan, sometimes called the Maid, a relapsed heretic. Churchill studied the document and felt called upon to defend England's role in the affair. "It wasn't us who did it," he growled. "It was the Burgundians."* Historian Churchill further remarked to his French guides: "You will probably find somewhere in these books that the French used to call us English 'the Goddams...
Fledgling Years. Even the shrewd dismissed it as a relatively harmless propaganda device. It was not. The peace propaganda campaign was a coldly calculated master plan to sabotage the West's efforts to restore the world's free economies and to defend itself...
...People Against O'Hara (MGM) deals with dipsomania and murder against the background of Manhattan's Fulton fish market. Lawyer Spencer Tracy, withdrawn from criminal practice because he was becoming involved emotionally in the struggle for clients' lives, reluctantly agrees to defend a neighborhood boy accused of murder. As the pressures mount, Tracy places more & more reliance on alcohol, ineptly bribes a state's witness, and fumbles his attempt to pin the crime on Waterfront Boss Eduardo Cianneili...