Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur H. Vandenberg, gave warning that Federal wage-fixing, once initiated, may lead to Federal price-fixing. They "together will lead ... to the centralized, authoritarian State with its tyranny of Government-blessed monopolies." Alabama's Senator Hugo Black, co-author of the bill, jumped to the microphone to defend it: "At least 6,000,000 people are now working more than 40 hours a week . . . 3,000,000 are now getting less than 40? an hour . . . even a 40-hour week would result in the re-employment...
...himself of complicity in Dublin's grisly Phoenix Park murders, got Gladstone to back his Home Rule bill, fell in love with red-haired Katie O'Shea. Her husband Willie connived at their romance until it suited his purpose to sue for divorce. When Parnell failed to defend the suit, he lost not only the public that had idolized him but Gladstone's support for his bill and all chance of Home Rule for Ireland. He died a year later...
Three weeks ago M-Day's three wings concentrated in California. There, divided into two warlike combat groups, it played a new kind of war game. Day & night it attacked and defended an imaginary Los Angeles that had been drawn to scale on the desert sands of Muroc Dry Salt Lake (TIME, May 24). Last week when the battle of Los Angeles ended, M-Day's commander, Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, sat down with his staff to write a confidential report to the War Department of the conclusions his new game had produced. But before...
Mussolini told Austria's Chancellor Schuschnigg that he could no longer defend Austrian independence as he had before, but the gobbling of Austria by Germany might be postponed many months if Austria would follow Yugoslavia in joining a Fascist bloc of Danubian States which would isolate Czechoslovakia from her French and Russian allies...
Even if Ranger had not lost her mast last week-which means that she will have to use a makeshift rig until July-it was by no means a certainty that she would be this year's Cup defender. The Cup races are preceded by trial races in which the two other candidates for the honor of defending yachting's oldest, ugliest trophy are Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, and Rainbow, which now belongs to Chandler Hovey. Like everything else about America's Cup racing, contender trials are grand scale. The Preliminary Series, which starts...