Word: defender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe course outside the three mile limit. A libel case, a good one, is a rarity among the larger papers of the country. But by a decision of a Justice of the New York Supreme Court last week, Mr. William Randolph Hearst and the Star Company will have to defend a libel suit...
...seems certain that the leases will be canceled by political pressure. It is worth any politician's "life" to dare to defend them. In business circles, however, it is freely pointed out that the Government may lose by the cancellation. If the leases are advantageous, to cancel them is a loss. And some of the works, begun for the Government, notably those at Pearl Harbor, will, it is said, be destroyed by weather, tides, etc., 'if the Doheny companies are prevented from completing them rapidly. The result would be a loss of several million dollars of Government property...
...frank without being hostile and can defend our countries' interests without being at enmity. Thus the Entente will be much more than a nominal thing and France and Great Britain can advance together to establish peace and security in Europe...
...Holy Father expressed the wish that "the greatest advantage should be gained by those Catholics who by the publication of newspapers and other writings illustrate, promote and defend Christian doctrine." He counsels that "they should confute errors and resist the wiles of perverse people, but in a way showing they are inspired by rectitude and especially by charity." To the work of extending the usefulness of the Catholic press, a saint, has been given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop...
...greatest statesman of modern times." With many others Prof. Carver shares the idea that Mussolini's power was ill-gotten"; as a matter of fact, the greater part of the American press has thought substantially along the same line. Of course it would be ridiculous for me to defend seizure of authority by force of arms as a general policy, but I believe that censure of such action under unusual circumstances is a debatable point. Therefore having in mind the extremely unusual circumstances which brought Mussolini to the forefront. I would like to say a few words in defence...