Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate itself that morning, Indiana's G.O.P. Senator William Jenner took the floor to defend McCarthy. Pretending that the six members of the Watkins committee were exclusively responsible for the charges against Joe, Jenner cried in injured tones: "Now 96 Senators from all 48 states are obliged to take time they should spend in their constituencies to come here and decide the issue raised by a few members." He neglected to add that 75 Senators-including Jenner-had voted to make the Watkins committee the Senate's agent in considering charges against McCarthy...
Thus self-cast in the role of Defender of the Faith, Perón declaimed: "[One priest] says that the choice is between Christ or Perón. I have never been in conflict with Christ. What I am trying to do is to defend Christ's doctrine, which for 2,000 years priests like these have been trying to destroy...
...their part, the pension investors defend the current program as neither too risky nor too conservative. Most portfolios are well spread out between Government and industrial bonds, preferred and common stock. As for concentrating on blue chips exclusively, they point to a recent survey showing that in the entire portfolios of 130 companies, only 100 owned five stocks in common. While established utility stocks are the first choice of most companies, their second and third choices are in such growing fields as electronics, oil and chemicals...
Clubs which restrict membership defend themselves on two counts. Their present facilities, they point out, are scarcely adequate to accommodate all alumni in their area. And they argue that some Harvard graduates just are not congenial with the present members--admitting them would cause unrest...
...begin next week. He had a typical McCarthy explanation: "I don't expect more than a very few Senators will go in there with an open mind." In the next breath, he showed that he has one of the closed minds. Said he: "I am not going to defend myself before the Senate. [I am going to] make a record so the American people will know what the Senate is doing...