Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...senior officer of the U. S. was Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy. Every one above him was out of town. But more importantly active than Mr. Edison in Franklin Roosevelt's absence was Mrs. President Roosevelt, who went to bat cleverly in her column to defend an act of her husband's which had stirred the country to its grass roots: shifting Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the next-to-last (TIME...
...every Army order Napoleon issued - and to whom. But, although he is quite aware that the Po route may some day be his own, the Italian maneuvers were not his chief interest last week. Since he took charge of her armies, France has acquired a possible new border to defend or cross, the border between France and Spain. Having vainly urged Léon Blum to pitch in with the Loyalists and lick Francisco Franco in 1936, General Gamelin was now doing the next best thing. He was inspecting the 250,000 interned Loyalist troops quartered in French concentration camps...
...Ratified (65 to 15) the long-delayed new treaty with Panama,* clarifying the U. S right to defend the Canal, upping Canal Zone rental from 250,000 to 430,000 balboas per annum. One balboa equals the gold value of one Roosevelt dollar (59.06?). The effect: Panama won her demand to get her canal rent from 1934 in old (100?) dollars instead of devalued (59?) dollars, became the only creditor on whom the U. S. has not succeeded in welching by devaluation...
...Naughtiness is the expression of an inner disturbance, an unsatisfied need, a state of tension; the child's soul is crying out for what it needs, seeking to defend itself...
...while everybody last week was pledging France to defend Poland, nothing was said about defending Danzig. The Poles consider Danzig a part of Poland. But whether the French or British do remained last week a question mark...