Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi spy headquarters in Germany within a few hours! "I Can Tell You That the Nazi Government spent huge sums to further their espionage in this country. . . ." U. S. Attorney Lamar Hardy, in charge of the spy prosecutions in Manhattan, feared that the articles might help his quarry defend themselves. He sought a court order to restrain Publisher Stern from printing the stories before the trials. Said he: "He [Turrou] obtained this information while in the employ of the United States. He doesn't own it. He has it in his care, but he hasn't the right...
Fortnight ago organizations of U. S. Jews were bitterly at odds over a demand by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise and his American Jewish Congress for a referendum on whether an all-inclusive agency should be formed to defend Jews' rights. Last week 38 grave Jewish leaders, called together by Merchant Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, assembled in Pittsburgh to talk over a compromise. By day's end they had found one, which was quickly ratified by the four big organizations-American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Labor Committee and B'nai B'rith. They agreed to form...
...Castelmare, Miss Carroll changes sides after getting a good look at the city's undernourished urchins and oldsters. This serves to emphasize the picture's incontrovertible thesis-that civilian populations suffer in modern war-but since her sweetheart (Henry Fonda) is in the army fighting to defend Castelmare, audiences are not likely to be bowled over by Miss Carroll's change of sentiment. Otherwise, Blockade's main innovation lies in the fact that it concentrates not on the fighting in the front lines but on its consequences behind them. Glimpses of peasants fleeing from their farms...
Last week-as Boss Hague was haled into Federal District Court in nearb'y Newark by C. I. O. and the Civil Liberties Union to defend himself against a charge of abridging the constitutional right of free speech-Norman Thomas, whose Socialist Party claims partial credit for ex posing Jersey City as a place where civil liberties are dead, appeared in Newark's Military Park to berate Mayor Hague publicly. His reward: howls, band music, ripe tomatoes, rotten eggs, an announcement by the park commissioner that hereafter Newark, like Jersey City, will permit no more anti-Hague meetings...
Reported backing lanky, softspoken, 49-year-old Candidate Winant was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Three times Republican Governor of New Hampshire, twice an assistant I. L. 0. director, Mr. Winant was appointed first chairman of the Social Security Board by Mr. Roosevelt. Later he resigned to defend the Social Security Act against Republican Candidate Alfred M. Landon's thrusts, actively campaigned for Democrat Roosevelt. Since August he has been at Geneva...