Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old onetime labor agitator. But it takes two sides to make even a court fight. The District Attorney, a Mooney protagonist, refused to bring charges. His assistant told Judge Louis H. Ward he had no case. Up rose Agitator Mooney to demand his constitutional right to defend himself, to put evidence of his innocence before the jury...
Firmly believing in his innocence, he protested the action and is understood to have resorted to physical violence in an effort to defend his position. The affair was finally settled and although the officers threatened arrest and removal from the train it is believed that he was released...
About five years ago Felix was hailed into court for selling a copy of The American Mercury. H. L. Mencken himself came to Cambridge to defend his production, accompanied by a battery of lawyers. Mencken lost his case and Felix was fined...
...debating team closes its season tonight, facing Yale in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock to uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the international traffic in arms and munitions should be outlawed." Another team has been sent to New Haven where it will defend the negative of the same question. The winner of the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Prize for Public Speaking, will be announced at the debate here tonight...
...brothers. Bill & Bun). Almost as surprising as the performance of Dillon last week was the work of the Rangers' youthful, mop-haired, talkative goaltender, Andy Aitkenhead. A recruit this year, replacing convivial John Ross Roach, he had stopped all but nine of 137 shots in five games. To defend their championship the Maple Leafs had a crack team of seasoned players. Charlie Conacher, 23-year-old forward, seemed to have ended his career three years ago when he had to have a kidney removed. He plays in a leather harness which has not prevented him from developing the hardest...