Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that conciliatory measures have somewhat improved this situation. Should Harvard now join the fight for repeal of the Oath, the supporters of the law would almost certainly attempt to arouse "town-gown" feeling again. Thus, in the final analysis, the university is confronted with the dilemma of whether to defend freedom of thought and increase local animosity or to ignore officially the struggle over this bill and let the matter drop...
...perhaps "the crusader" will fight for the cause of democracy in other fields. Harvard men, justly proud of his accomplishments, can only hope that a desire to use his talents where they were more needed dictated his retirement from the bench. For, at a time when democracy looks to defend itself from the onslaughts of bigotry and intolerance, the complete loss of the keen mind and tremendous ability of Louis Brandeis would be irreparable...
...time-abiding. The great Isolationists of yore, Idaho's Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators that he did with yesterday's. Yet to defend the most adventurous President since Wilson, the only major figures in sight were Senators even more moribund or inept: old Lewis of Illinois, heavy Barkley of Kentucky, thick-tongued Pittman of Nevada, bumbling McKellar of Tennessee...
...most direct manner possible that Germany wanted back the colonies she lost in the World War, colonies now largely held by Britain and France. Second, the Führer implied that Germany would stand by Italy in a Mediterranean crisis, declared that the two nations were determined to "defend our common interests together...
Colonies. The "theft" of the former German colonies, the Führer said, was "morally wrong" and "sheer madness." "To assume that it was permitted by the Lord God to a few peoples first to take possession of the world by force and then to defend their robbery by moral theories is perhaps comforting and above all easy for the possessors, but it is immaterial and uninteresting and non-binding for the have-nots," Herr Hitler declared. "No people have been born to be have-nots and no people to be haves." Threateningly the Führer added: "It will...