Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long viaduct leading to the mill. Ohio's Governor Davey, having withdrawn his troops from Massillon, the gate was patrolled by some 30 deputized special guards. Knocking in the windows of the cars the guards dragged out the drivers, while a crowd of pickets surged up to defend them. In the ensuing two-hour battle the nearby union headquarters was nearly wrecked, a baker's dozen of pickets were shot, two fatally...
...Ranger has been selected to defend the America...
...Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last fall ordered a defender built for himself alone...
...francs left in the Treasury, said M. Bonnet, and if 400,000,000 francs had not immediately been forthcoming from savings banks. "Treasury payments would have ceased." As to the profits realized by M. Auriol from his devaluation of the franc last year and used by the Treasury to defend its currency, these are exhausted, and M. Bonnet tersely declared: "It is impossible to hold the franc at its present rate...
...last week for a one-day emergency convention. It would be, they had been told, a "most important meeting" (TIME, June 28). At the rallying cry of Nashville's young James Geddes ("Jimmy") Stahlman, busy-bustling new president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, they had come to defend their profession's holy grail, the Freedom of the Press...