Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both before and after President Eisenhower took to TV to defend his besieged budget (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Capitol Hill Democrats snickered in the cloakrooms: "The Republican Party should demand equal time to answer him!" Utah's neo-dinosaurian Republican ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee, now chairman of the "For America" committee, did exactly that. By last week three major TV networks had turned down Republican Lee's request, leaving only Mutual Broadcasting Network as his last hope...
...Democrats are united. Since, in time of peace and prosperity, no Democrat would feel called upon to defend a Republican budget, Johnson found it easy to unite his party against it, meanwhile managing to gloss over the deep Democratic splits between Southerners and civil-rights advocates, conservatives and Fair Dealers...
...finding of Yugoslav independence. Among the events: the Russian intervention in Hungary that brought the Moscow-Belgrade honeymoon to an end and has been followed by "renewed Soviet harassment of Yugoslavia." Result: the U.S., with Ike's approval, will send its shipments of heavy equipment to help Tito defend himself-but deliveries will be made on a "more modest" scale than originally planned; e.g., only 75-80 of the promised jets will be released this year...
...battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used to defend it. This was reasonable, for Lee himself conceded afterwards: "It is I who have lost this fight." That, of course, opened up the question of why Lee failed. Most succinct of the answers was that of the Detroit Free Press: General Lee was incapacitated by a "dysentery spell...
...Religious education. Gomulka's granting as much as he did was a concession he is hard put to defend before his fellow Communists, who see Poland's youth slipping away from them into the Catholic orbit. But Wyszynski is known to be in favor of reintroducing the parochial schools, and there is some laymen's pressure to make religious education compulsory for all-a demand that Gomulka cannot possibly grant and Wyszynski will not make...