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Word: defender (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week parents of the dead Lübeck children, who had attended every session of court, grew weary of arguments. As a lawyer attempted to defend the Calmette vaccine they filled the courtroom with shouts, temporarily broke up the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trial at Liibeck | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Marching workers carried papier-mache figures of "Japanese Imperialists" strangling "Chinese Comrades." In a military order of the day, Klim Voroshilov declared: "On this 14th anniversary of the Revolution we are ready to defend our-selves." To cheering throngs in the Red Square he roared: "Our workers and peasants have proved by their strenuous labor that they can win victory in war as in the peaceful battles of industrialization!" Meanwhile the famed Third International, Moscow's bureau of world propaganda, clarioned: "Japan's war against the working masses of China is a war against us and a step toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-RUSSIA: Two War Lords | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...Vagabond has always liked the picture of the honest, slow, bull necked, barons rumbling down to the waters of Runnymede to defend their rights and the right. All unconscious of the fact that they were transforming English history, interested only in the problems of the day, they confronted the greatest tyrant the nation has ever known and snarled out Magna Charta. The significance of 1215 can be found in Kipling's "The Reeds of Runnymede" which the Vagabond would like to suggest as a comfortable method of absorbing history. Because he knows the lassitude of the mind, he will quote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/27/1931 | See Source »

Fallon made money by the fistful but could not keep his fingers closed. He grew increasingly fond of liquor & women. Married, with two children, he would not handle divorce cases because of his Roman Catholic faith. Outside of that he would defend almost any criminal against almost any charge. He lived more & more wildly, grew less & less careful of legal ethics. Finally Hearst's New York American discovered evidence that Fallon had bribed a juror. In the ensuing trial, Fallon electrified the court by announcing he had in his pocket birth certificates of two illegitimate children of a certain cinemactress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fowler on Fallon | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...nearly as much as they are thought to have said, and in the second place what they have said in the way of support for traditional religious beliefs has been said by them not in their cautious, scientific capacity, but rather in their capacity of good citizens, anxious to defend virtue and property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Star | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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