Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest 'bogey man' is that around every corner is stationed a 'Red' or a 'Bolshevik' with a bomb in his hand to blow up the Constitution of the United States unless General Dawes and his associates are called forth to defend...
Then there is the Suez Canal problem. The Canal is owned 'by an international company operating from Paris. Its defense was undertaken entirely by Britain, and, in order to defend it, a share in the government of the Sudan was a most necessary condition. Moreover, the Suez is the "Gate to India" and Britain is never likely to relinquish the key without a considerable struggle...
...liberals and progressives cannot support a man who as President of the American Bar never opened his mouth through years of hysteria and persecution in defense of rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, a document which he seems solicitous to defend not when it is in danger of suspension, but only when it is in need of orderly and vital amendment...
...Democratic nominee has been accused of personal dishonesty, because he accepted employment under a great corporation as consulting attorney. If Mr. Davis believes that a concern such as Morgan & Co. is a menace to our country, could be conscientiously agree to defend its interests for a consideration...
...auto camp." Guests no longer arrive bag and baggage via the railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars. Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week, and the landlord's toll is apt to be nightly rather than by the week or month...