Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would Negro leaders react if the police staged a mass raid on Negro nightspots to round up suspects? asked Brannon tentatively. To his surprise, the businessmen assured him that they would speak up to defend the police if the Negro community raised an outcry. A few nights later, in Kansas City's biggest police raid since 1941, nine teams of detectives-with at least one Negro cop on each team -stormed into Negro-district bars, restaurants, pool halls, nightclubs. Three paddy wagons shuttled back and forth for three hours, hauling 276 men and three women to headquarters for questioning...
...Mathematics Department has announced that a team composed of Everett C. Dade '58, David B. Mumford '57, and Rohit J. Parikh '57 will defend the University's championship in the William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Mathematical Competition, to be held on Saturday, March...
...into the Senate caucus room to hear him, the Secretary of State appeared fit and fresh in his pin-stripe grey suit and gay red necktie. Once more he was on hand to explain the President's request for authorization to 1) use U.S. forces, if requested, to defend any Middle Eastern nation against Communism, and 2) spend, without restriction, $200 million of already appropriated funds for Middle Eastern economic aid. Late the next afternoon, as he wearily pulled on his overcoat after questioning by the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, John Foster Dulles was pale...
...early '30s, he made a hit with the French generals. They also remembered that as a high staff officer in the occupation he had prevented the SS from shooting hostages. Later Speidel won the sympathies of the Danes, Belgians and Dutch by criticizing French plans to defend Europe only as far east as the Rhine. He made himself so agreeable throughout NATO's top echelons, in fact, that the Germans had practically no choice but to name him to the new job-his first field command since he bossed a Grenadier battalion in his native Württemberg...
...hours of two days last week, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles faced the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees to defend anew the President's request for authority to use U.S. forces and dollars to keep the Communists out of the Middle East. Buzzed by a swarm of Democrats headed by Arkansas' William Fulbright, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Wayne Morse, Dulles said sharply that the Middle Eastern situation is the most dangerous that the U.S. has encountered in ten years. When North Dakota's Republican Bill Langer asked whether...