Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raising of cotton; it was an illegal attempt by the Federal Government to regulate farmers who are not engaged in interstate commerce. With equal interest the Justices made inquiries about the terms of the law. Next came the railroad's turn. Its lawyer made no attempt to defend the Bankhead Act, simply contending that unless the Court should declare the Act unconstitutional, the railroad could not ship the cotton. Would the Court please decide...
...friend of the court" Solicitor Reed appeared on behalf of the Government to defend the Bankhead Act. He told the Court that its prerogative to declare a law unconstitutional should not be exercised except with the utmost care and for the gravest reasons. Very sour indeed were the faces of the Justices at being thus instructed in their duties. As a reason for the Court's not passing on the validity of the law, he advanced the argument that the Moor case was a "non- adversary proceeding; that is, a collusive suit between the plaintiff and the defendants...
...France reached a pitch that aroused general indignation and brought to light the utter corruption of the party which has been in power for the past 60 years, the Croix de Feu paraded the streets of Paris as a warning that men who had exposed their lives to defend their country were prepared to do so again in another field. . . . The Croix de Feu cannot help but admire the splendid spirit and proud bearing of every Italian and German as compared with the despondent, anxious and embittered attitude of their own countrymen. But they refuse to be identified with "fascism...
...justice and wisdom of dismembering Ethiopia after he had read and heard the first reactions of news-organs and British political henchmen to the startling events in Paris-startling to millions who balloted under the distinct impression that His Majesty's Government intended to preserve, protect and defend through the League of Nations the territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Neither Squire Baldwin nor any member of the British Cabinet ever promised to do this. In respect to Ethiopia they merely promised to be sound and adequate...
Harvard will defend the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, that the United States should participate in all of the measures of the League of Nations against Italy." This same topic will furnish the subject at a discussion meeting on Wednesday when Robert B. Applebaum '36 and George J. Weber '36, the alternates for the Columbia debate will lead the discussion, affirmatively and negatively, respectively...