Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House did Author Mahan come into the honors due a major prophet at home. In the Mahan works, Theodore Roosevelt found the perfect articulation of his Big Stick. Five years before the Spanish-American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called "the handmaid of expansion...
Competition this weekend will be for the Morse Cup, the winner of which is recognized as intercollegiate dinghy champion. M.I.T., which won the prize last year, will attempt to defend its title against seven rivals...
...Heard (in committee) New York's Senator Wagner defend his Labor Relations Act against revisionist criticism (TIME, April 10). Author Wagner would concede only that employers as well as employers should be allowed to petition for elections when competing unions impede work by fighting...
...President told the Pan American Union and the world that the U. S. would defend all the Americas against foreign attack, urged the Dictators' peoples to throw over the Dictators...
Germany would then be on the Channel and nearer to England. The Belgian Maginot Line might be outflanked. If, however, Herr Hitler is thinking of the disadvantages of a Netherlands coup, they would overshadow the advantages. There would be 230 more miles of western frontier to defend. The Belgians have heavily fortified their frontier with The Netherlands, and invasion through The Netherlands to the ultimate goal of France and Paris is a circuitous route to take...