Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case to determine whether Gilligan, a 17-year police veteran with 19 citations for meritorious police work, violated any department regulations. It will be under heavy pressure to find against him. Yet it should go without saying that anyone being attacked with a knife has a right to defend himself-and the grand jury displayed no doubt at all about that. Declared George Schuyler, one of two Negroes serving on the 23-man jury: "Our decision was unanimous. I did the right thing, and so did the rest of the jury...
Churches must have money, and most ministers stoutly defend fund-raising systems that work. But many would also prefer to "do away with bazaars, raffles and anything that smacks of a church supported by gadgets," as the Rev. James Madden, vice chancellor of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, puts it. He, and others, want "to bring back the idea that supporting the church is something natural...
...Accuse! Prittie, the Manchester Guardian's able, longtime (1946-63) Bonn correspondent, broadly interprets the opposition as encompassing not only Germans who plotted against Hitler but also those who tried "to help his victims, or just to defend their beliefs." While the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches were both ingloriously compliant, many individual churchmen in particular were outspoken foes of the regime. Clemens Cardinal von Galen of Miinster denounced the Nazis' euthanasia program from the pulpit, halting, at least for a time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray...
...Cromwell and his Republican supporters were determined that the King should die after an elaborately rigged state trial. After ramming the indictment through Parliament, Cromwell handpicked 59 judges to try the King, and sat among them himself. The prosecutor hectored the royal prisoner, who was not even permitted to defend himself. Roundheads in the gallery shouted: "Execution! Execution!" One of the judges finally leaped to his feet, crying: "Have we hearts of stone? Are we men?" Cromwell shut him up: "What ails thee? Art thou...
...Last week's meeting boasted the first woman invited to address the A.B.A. assembly: the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, first (1958) woman to sit in Britain's House of Lords. This year's outgoing president, Arizonan Walter E. Craig, is a federal judge-select who stoutly defends the Supreme Court. His successor is Virginian Lewis F. Powell Jr., the moderate former chairman of the Richmond school board, who quietly desegregated that city's schools in 1959. Powell's exemplary platform: Speed up A.B.A. efforts to strengthen professional ethics, equalize criminal justice and defend the indigent...