Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Schumann's address, A. Jerome Himelhoch '38 will announce the five-fold purpose of the strike: to demand the demilitarization of colleges, to oppose the war budget, to recognize the Oxford pledge, to defend civil liberties, and to resolve to keep America out of war. Himelhoch will stress the importance of supporting the Nye-Kvale amendment to eliminate compulsory military training...
Oslo is the capital of Norway and there is a placid affinity of minds among Netherlanders, Norwegians, Luxembourgers, Danes, Belgians, Swedes and Finns. These neighbors are so good and so unable to defend themselves that they recently decided at The Hague to revive the Oslo Convention of 1930 under which they were all to have lowered tariffs among each other. In principle the Great Powers too are strong for such good neighborliness, in practice their statesmen feel helpless to down either tariffs or rearmament, and so last week they played up the Oslo Group benignly...
South of Madrid the driving Leftists advanced within 65 miles of beauteous Seville, "Queen City of Andalusia," but Rightist forces avoided a "bottling-up drive" launched to entrap them. Some 10,000 Italians were reported defending this rich orange-growing region and the nearby sherry country. According to London trade figures released last week, England continues to buy almost exactly as great a volume of oranges and sherry as last year from "Business as Usual" Spain-the only difference being that this year the British have had to pay cash. North of Madrid last week the Rightist offensive of General...
Among friends of John Russell Pope who sprang forward to defend him last week were Sculptor James Earle Fraser and President Archibald Manning Brown of the Architectural League. Their points...
...what you call absolutely free," he said. "The oath bill interferes with abuse of freedom, not freedom itself. It's an honor to be asked to defend the Constitution. Why, notaries are charged five dollars for their oaths. If I charged the teachers that, they'd be after me with machine guns!" Dorgan relaxed against the sofa and laughed heartily...