Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleges the forms of military training, jingoistic propaganda, etc."; to "expose the sham of 'democracy'. . .; the consistent denial of the elementary rights of free speech, press and peaceful assembly; the violent repression of working class struggles"; to expose and fight against "a fascist reign by capitalist interests"; to defend and popularize the U. S. S. R. and its plan; to fight against racial and national discrimination; to fight for academic freedom, both in the classroom and out; and to support the demands for government unemployment insurance...
...Department is absolutely right in its refusal to release the gruesome Signal Corps official photographs of mutilations, putrified dead and other war horrors to amuse the morbidly curious. It seems unbelievable that the people whom these men died so horribly to defend would want to gloat over these pictures and ridicule these heroic dead, or that a publisher would exploit them...
...Heard Postmaster General Brown defend present airmail contracts, flay lower bids by "independent and irresponsible operators...
Unofficial conclusions of experts and officers on what had been one of the greatest tests the Navy has ever set itself varied in all save two characteristic details: 1) the old Wartime destroyers are obsolescent, "short legged," should be scrapped; 2) a Bigger Navy is needed to defend the U. S. shore line adequately...
Because the surface is so fast that it makes long rallies infrequent, indoor tennis is less taxing than outdoor. For this reason Jean Borotra, who can not scamper through a long match so spryly as he used to do, finds it more to his taste. To defend his indoor championship of the U. S.. which he has won every odd-numbered year since 1925, he last week made one of his business-&-tennis visits to Manhattan. In the quarter-final he came up against Berkeley Bell of Texas. Before Borotra could find out exactly how Bell contrived to pass...