Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since that time, Fortas has been called upon to defend Johnson's former secretary, Bobby Baker, and to cover up for Presidential aide Walter Jenkins when he was arrested in Washington on a morals charge. Fortas's wife handles the Johnson family's tax accounts...
...have. At the time of his appointment last January, Stendahl said he hoped to see the Divinity School "become sensitive" to the injustices of society. During the two days of Paul Olimpieri's sanctuary, however, Stendahl refused to confront those injustices. He was under no obligation either to defend or to oppose the politics of Olimpieri's action; but without a word about politics, without a word about the war, and without a word about the Divinity School's stand on draft resistance, Stendahl could have responded to the situation. As a man in the service of God, he could...
...events up to this point and were to play an even smaller part in the events that were to follow.) Portraits of Che Guevara had been adopted by the students as a symbol of their movement. The students explained that as they were willing to give their lives to defend the Mexican constitution and preserve freedom of speech and the autonomy of the University, they felt that the portrait of a man who had given up everything and died for his beliefs was a fitting symbol. This was taken by the government, however, as further proof of the communist inspiration...
...people of Mexico City. The police arrested many of these students. Arrests ran as high as 125 per day, but most of these were released the next day. Parents who reported disappearances were often told that their children were in prison for voicing communist ideas. If they attempted to defend their children, they too were branded communist and imprisoned. It should be mentioned at this point that the parents and the faculty supported the students from the start. When I was at the university hundreds of parents came there one evening to hear student and faculty speakers discuss the problems...
Merrill Lynch expressed "surprise" at the SEC action. "We are convinced that none of our people acted wrongfully, and we will defend our position vigorously," said a spokesman. For its own sake, the firm can afford to do no less. Merrill Lynch owes both its eminence and fortune to its success in wooing the small investor. To back the well-justified boast that it brought Wall Street to Main Street, the company points to its 1,400,000 individual customers, nearly one-third more than any other stockbroker has. Their trading, along with that of 3,000 institutional customers, last...