Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been forgiven, but investors have been disposed to regard it as an act of Congress rather than of an executive department and dictated by the emergency arising out of the impounding of gold during the bank holiday. A second instance of turnabout face is not so easy to defend. The withdrawal of Mr. Acheson serves to emphasize the perplexities that confront his successor. In fact the Treasury of the United States will have to get some help from President Roosevelt by way of assurances and pledges if future government securities are not to be driven downward in the markets...
While this would be inflation in a sense, it would be easier to defend and probably would not result in the psychology of alarm which has surrounded the printing press idea
...Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher education for women, which he called a "rather decent overcoming of a primitive feeling, and we know that new liberties are fragile and must be vigilantly defended. It is, we must realize, scarcely 200 years that it has been considered decent for a woman to publish a book...
Wearing his customary expression of befuddled disdain, 230 lb. Jim Browning last week climbed into a Manhattan ring to defend his "world's heavyweight wrestling championship" against lithe, indignant-looking Sandor Szabo, the "Hungarian Adonis." After 50 minutes of serious wrestling, in which Browning broke most of Szabo's holds by wriggling out of the ring, the champion caught Szabo in a "flying scissors." Szabo broke the hold but remained sufficiently dazed to fall into it again ten seconds later. This time, when Browning stopped thrashing his legs, Szabo lay still on his back and Referee Arthur Donovan...
...England, tries to make her come back with him, and when he fails, warns her to take the consequences. The consequences are that she is shadowed, discovered in more than one compromising situation with young Tony, and her husband institutes divorce proceedings. Clare and Tony, who are really innocent, defend the suit, but lose -much the best thing, for now Clare can become Tony's mistress with a clear conscience, perhaps marry him when she is divorced. Meantime Dinny has been as helpful as possible. Worthy Eustace has been courting her quietly but unsuccessfully till she gets news that...