Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Roosevelt, who went to hear her grandson defend her son told the Kiwanis Club of New York that Franklin Roosevelt was named not for prudent Ben Franklin but "after an English friend of his great-grandfather...
...That Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...
Next Japanese objective was another so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The first, an impressive array of cement pillbox forts strung across the Yangtze delta back of Shanghai, was supposed to defend Nanking, but the defenders simply fled, not waiting to be attacked (TIME, Nov. 29). This Hindenburg Line, much more heavily fortified and built under German military engineers during the past six years, was constructed to resist an attack from the north at just about the point the Japanese have reached this week, a few miles north of Suchow. But now, if the Japanese cannot take it from the north...
...concluded: "In what other country could it happen that the Prime Minister, the Minister of War and the Minister of Foreign Affairs could allow their staffs to be executed as spies and traitors without daring to defend them or without taking some share in the responsibility in what they are alleged to have done...
...history, historical Christianity has been consistent; it has consistently opposed application of the teachings of Jesus. . . . Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of historical Christianity; the founder of what today passes as Christianity and ever has so passed. . . . I hate the things which historical Christianity has and does defend: superstition, intolerance, slavery, war, degradation of womanhood, and placing of property rights above human rights. Therefore, with this service I conclude my relation with the church-but not with the ministry. I expect to minister to a larger number than would be possible in any church, and to be perfectly free...