Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little dimmed by the fact that just one of the 1,377 original claimants turned up to collect his pay. Nor did he feel lost with out his longtime cause. "My real hobby is the Constitution," cried he. "I'm going to fight for that. I'm going to defend the power trust against the baloney trust...
...Haile Selassie had conceded subsoil rights in half his empire to British Promoter Francis Rickett and his mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by statesmen and financiers last week a "nigger trick." Anything but smart was this dusky African potentate's pathetic belief that President Roosevelt would defend Ethiopia against Italy as a result of the midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross misjudgment." This petulant error Chargé d'Affaires Engert erased by denying the assertions of the Emperor's own entourage that he expressed himself...
...Washington and others higher up caught in telling the kind of technical lies which few Big Businessmen consider reprehensible when dealing with the Press, Standard Oil last week might well consider itself through with an unfortunate international episode. Unlike Ethiopia's Emperor, it never really expected President Roosevelt to defend its concession with U. S. arms. Like every great oil company, it has scores of concessions and near-concessions on its hooks, plays them close to the chest, dropping one trick here, taking another there. Last week it dropped a trick in Ethiopia because a minor monarch got it into...
...would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program of some sort. As a matter of fact his strategy remained that of a general...
...Give no information to officers, only your name. Plead not guilty and demand a trial. Demand that the ILD defend you. Insist that you be let out on your own recognizance. If they refuse, demand that they set a low bail. Demand a copy of the complaint. Do not sign anything. Carry on the class fight in jail and in the courts...