Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the Pittsburgh grand jury filed into the court room and handed to the judge the Government's charges with the words written across their face: "Not a True Bill." The jury's refusal to indict spared Andrew William Mellon the humiliation of having to defend himself in court on the charge that, as Secretary of the Treasury, he had brazenly and deliberately tried to cheat on his income tax return...
...that "they [Fundamentalists in the Presbyterian Church] set up the Independent Hoard." ... On April 16 the Philadelphia Presbytery, long the recognized stronghold of Fundamentalism in that church, repudiated the Independent Hoard, went on record as "disapproving the formation of a new board." Conservatives and liberals united to defend the board of the church and its secretary, Robert Elliott Speer. Some weeks ago Dr. Machen, head of the new Board, sought to transfer his membership from the New Brunswick Presbytery (Princeton), where he was hopelessly alone, to Philadelphia, where he hoped to rally the forces of Fundamentalism. So many opposed...
When querted about Admiral Byrd's solitary sally into the frigid wilds. Mr. McCaleb replied. "Personally, I think it is very silly. But of course, it is useless to criticize Admiral Byrd until he has a chance to defend himself. The consensus of opinion among his most intimate friends seems to be that this move was motivated by reasons wholly psychological. If Admiral Byrd's sole reason was to observe human reactions. I would advise him to come back and set up a but on top of Mt. Washington...
...recurrent paradox of the international gun trade that nations arm their enemies." During the War German scrap iron at the rate of 150,000 tons a month was shipped into France, via Switzerland. French bauxite (aluminum) found its way into the construction of German submarines; German barbed wire helped defend Verdun...
...four scenes with excitement. As Lonnie's peril increases and the play becomes more intense, its shabby cloak of propaganda happily falls away. Stevedore turns into a glorious melodrama in the grand manner of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo or Dumas. When the white stevedores rush to the aid of the besieged blacks, the play's strictly partisan audience found itself...