Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Miaja forced the janitor to give him the letter then and there, discovered that the Cabinet had given him "full powers" either to defend Madrid or surrender it on the best terms he could...
...peaceful method is seen to make them disappear, it is useless to dissuade the victims thereof to cause justice to be respected by force, if they have it; if the nations by virtue of their own excesses or because they are exposed to the mistakes of others, must defend their economy and their financial balance, and deem it necessary to do so by raising tariffs, devaluating currency or prohibiting the entry of workers or foreign goods, they will...
Foreign military observers, totally unimpressed at Franco's proud declaration that Santander was "at his mercy," described Santander as a pushover because: 1) only about 25,000 half-hearted Basques, Santandrians and Asturians remain to defend the city against Franco's 60,000 Moors, Foreign Legionnaires, Italians; 2) successfully over the Cantabrian Mountains, the three Rightist columns can coast down the sloping hills into Santander; 3) no "iron ring" protects the city, only ill-concealed machine-gun nests on the hillsides, a few straggly strands of barbed wire...
...under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago. The Garden's long control over the heavyweight fight industry was out for the count of ten when Braddock, its erstwhile "Cinderella Man," hit the canvas. Next; week Max Schmeling arrives in the U. S. There is every possibility that he will...
...Lawyer Liebowitz it is all in the day's work. Routed from his bed at 3 a. m. last year with an offer to defend the Nancy Titterton bathtub murderer he refused with a snort of outraged morality. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's a dirty, nasty affair. The man is a beast. The public is strongly against him. As a matter of fact that guy is sitting in the electric chair right...