Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt announced that Ranger will be the name of the sloop now being built at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works, with which he hopes to defend the America's Cup this summer. Ranger is the namesake of the first U. S. man-of-war to hoist the new national flag and the first to receive an official salute from a foreign nation...
...through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often was he interrupted by catcalls, loud expressions of dissent and ironic cries of "Vive la Banque!" Wide open was the governor to shareholders' jokes, for his report, written a while before, was crammed with cheer, confidence and numerous vows to defend the franc and the low rediscount rate. At the moment the franc was sinking, the Bank of France had just hiked the rediscount rate from 2% to 4% and the state of the franc required Britain's aid in the form of a $250,000,000 loan...
...skull cap from his damp hair, the Chief Justice boomed: "Do you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of your ability"-with every word his voice grew more emphatic-"preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, SO HELP YOU GOD?" With his palm on the old Dutch bible of Claes Martenzen van Rosenvelt (protected from the rain by a heavy sheet of waterproof cellophane) Mr. Roosevelt threw
...ring in his voice mounted as he shouted the words, each a separate challenge. "Preserve" "Protect" and "Defend." "SO HELP ME GOD!" he added with sacerdotal solemnity. Act IV was Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address, an address which presented no program, no plans but the activating sentiment of the New Deal. The rain beat a tattoo in the microphones and twice the President wiped the water from his face as he unfolded his burden: "In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens-a substantial part of its whole population-who at this very moment...
...empowered a committee to defend Labor against...