Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor. Today I have had some experience in practical politics." Republican tactics when Dr. Ten arrives to take his seat at the Capitol may be to demand that he "stand aside" while other new House members take their oaths, then force his Democratic colleagues to defend him. If he is unseated he will not be vastly surprised. Of being tough Hamtramck's mayor he long ago said: "There's a hoodoo connected with this...
...tone of George Fielding Eliot's The Ramparts We Watch is one of guarded optimism. He says that the U. S. needs a military and naval force able to defend Canada and South America against the combined attacks of Germany, Italy and Japan. But this need, which he considers urgent, does not demand an enormous expansion of the army and navy, does not require industrial mobilization, with regimentation of labor, and paralyzing control of business...
...Britain's Neville Chamberlain did say: "No one in this country would seek to defend the senseless crime of the murder of vom Rath, but at the same time there will be deep and widespread sympathy for those being made to suffer...
...sail for Rio, rumor circulated that he was going to trade U. S. wheat for Brazilian coffee. The U. S. has heard a lot lately about European, particularly German, barter with South America and Mexico (machinery for oil and crops); so it seemed reasonable for U. S. traders to defend themselves with similar tactics. But last week the Brazilian Government emphatically denied the rumor. President Getulio Vargas announced that the Government's new coffee policy (like the -U. S., Brazil found crop limitation a failure, now ruthlessly dumps its coffee surplus abroad) had been so successful that...
...disheartening tie by Princeton was offset Saturday when Princeton defeated Yale by the score of 1 to 0. The Crimson soccer team will travel to New Haven on Friday to Defend their big three soccer championship...