Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapidly spreading in Britain and that it is partly responsible for the failure of recruiting. This doctrine is due to loose thinking, a lack of logic and in ability to face facts. . . . The leaders of the Church should say boldly that it is the duty of a man to defend his country and the ideals in which he has been brought up, and that in the whole history of Christianity there were no finer Christian heroes than soldiers...
...alumni, no matter how perfectly they conformed to the collegiate pattern of life in pre-diploma days, be expected to defend undergraduate realism. A year off the campus and the average alumnus is more apt to remember the good time he had a such and such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much...
There, in one brief statement, is the philosophy of Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and one of the most outstanding of the New Deal thinkers. Secretary Wallace will defend and illuminate on this statement when he addresses the Round Table on Agriculture at the Princeton-Harvard-Yale Conference on Public Affairs to be held at Princeton...
Prop For Eden. At this point the British Government realized that something must be done to restore the prestige of Anthony Eden and take a little cockiness out of Baron Aloisi. Slow-moving Stanley Baldwin hoisted himself on a lecture platform in Worcester to defend Britain's temporizing on sanctions, and his Foreign Secretary...
Such retaliatory measures are not only consummately unconstitutional and unjust but are above all else cowardly. They strike at those unable to defend themselves either with money or with popular and sympathetic support. If anyone doubts the truth of this let him ask himself whether the House of Representatives of Georgia has ordered Erskine Caldwell examined by a psychiatrist. Certainly the author of the famous "Tobacco Road" handed Georgia no orchids' in that brilliant yet searing expose. Though Caldwell and Peter Moody represent two totally different planes of achievement and position they nevertheless are doing the same thing:--telling...