Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gambling and adultery for the 40 ruling families. Venice's maritime power and the Mediterranean's role as the world's central sea had been ended by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to the Orient. A declining 17th Century Venice could not defend outlying possessions. Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake...
Senator McKellar of the Senate Appropriations Committee protested yesterday that J. Edgar Hoover's "G" men were running wild with Government money, and he advocated a $225,000 slash in the Department of Justice allotment for the coming year. Mr. Hoover appeared in person to defend these charges, and insisted that any cut in governmental appropriation would encourage a new crime wave, as well as seriously hamper the Department's work...
Supine America needs to be reminded that it is only twenty miles across the Bering Straits from Red Siberia to Alaska. The young men of the country who some day will be called upon to defend the haven of liberty against the new Attila are asking little enough from an apparently ungrateful nation. Their demands must be met before it is too late...
Cried Sir Osmond Grattan Esmonde, pro-British Member from Waterford: "Since you know you cannot defend yourself with such a force, you are relying on the British fleet for protection...
...employ counsel to defend suits filed against his committee's activities by William Randolph Hearst and others (TIME, March 23), he wanted $10,000. Even more than the money, he wanted the moral support of the House and the White House. Therefore he put his request for an appropriation in the form of a joint resolution which would have to go through Congress and be signed by the President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable...