Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question his motives. To get where he is with the crowd he had to do what he did and from his standpoint it was probably worth the price. But the real point of interest in that record for the American people now, if Governor Smith will defend it, is the picture of Tammany putting pressure on fine, aspiring young men like Al Smith . . . how it overlays his conscience with Tammany psychology. . . . "I make no claim here that Smith is a Tammany plug-ugly. I honor him for having risen from the debasing subserviency. . . . This record is, of course...
Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...
...President's health even included freedom from his annual rose fever. ¶Cook Ernest Gilpin, who fries, broils, bakes the President's fish, was called to defend himself in Milwaukee against his wife's charges of cruelty and desertion. Cook Gilpin stayed at Brule, let the court fix a $12-per-week separation allowance...
Therefore when "that bloody rabbit bill!" came up, last week, landed and rusticating Peers bustled up to London, to defend the right of rabbits to be reduced only by authentic sportsmen...
Nathan L. Miller, onetime (1920-22) Governor of New York, famed U. S. Steel attorney, was retained last week by Verner Reed, wealthy onetime Denverite, to defend a butler against a charge of cruelty to animals. The butler was Felix Solomon, who two weeks ago shot and killed a neighbor's monkey that had invaded the Reed estate and was threatening two Reed infants...