Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Help for Stragglers. The whole idea of "extending prosperity" to the farm, i.e., taking quick, corrective action to get all the good graph lines rising together-epitomizes Government's new role in the expanding economy. Harry Truman's Agriculture Department rushed to defend the farmer, was willing to commit him to eternal Government control in protecting farm income. Eisenhower, as the report shows it, sees the farmer as a blameless straggler in the general march to prosperity. Ike wants to get him back in line as soon as possible so that the farmer can march up the graph...
Georgia's Griffin, most militant among the four, wanted to use stronger language. He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights. "Without these essential provisions," said Griffin, "there is no interposition." But Griffin's reckless bluster was not yet the tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy...
Norman Thomas and John Dos Passos '16 will debate "The Future of Socialism" tonight at Sanders Theater in the Law School Forum. Thomas, six times presidential candidate for the Socialist party, is expected to defend his party against the criticism of Dos Passos...
...Mathematics department will organize a team to defend its championship in the William Lowell Putnam Contest. Colleges throughout the country will enter the contest, to be held in March...
...whole life to the pursuit of a just and durable peace. I believe, however, that there are basic moral values and vital interests for which we stand, and that the surest way to avoid war is to let it be known in advance that we are prepared to defend these principles, if need be by life itself...