Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes he prods Memphis businessmen and advertisers into protesting on his behalf. Sometimes public officials leap up to defend him. When Mrs. Agnes Meyer, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, compared him to Hitler last week, Senator Tom Stewart hurriedly took the floor of the Senate to cry: "Mrs. Meyer seeks to slander the South and its greatest leader...
Vishinsky turned his attention to "democracy." "Many people love democracy but do not know how to defend it. They take democracy for a lovely lady instead of seeing it as a vigorous comrade...
...pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid a few flowers...
...Tuesday meeting of Section 16 was the fruition of the three weeks' work. Present were the students, Walker, and Eiijah William Cunningham, who came prepared to defend himself against a paper written by a Freshman...
Jane Russell's charms, as exploited in advertisements, got Producer Howard Hughes in trouble with the Eric Johnston (ex-Will Hays) organization. Producer Hughes was summoned to defend himself next week against "suspension or expulsion" from the organization for violating the standards of decency. Sample obliquities in a recent newspaper ad that carried robusty Miss Russell's picture: "The Music Hall gets the big ones," "What are the two great reasons for Jane Russell's rise to stardom...