Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic side of the picture is dark. The ethical side is a deep and sombre black. The veterans can find no defenders and no justifiers outside of their own specially - favored group. Recently we have heard much of special interest and of lobbying, but the greatest and most effective of all lobbies--those maintained by the various veterans' associations--by some special dispensation escape labelling and the halls of Congress ring with cheers for their agents. The reason, of course, lies in their compact organization and vote-control. They come, not as petitioners with a legitimate interest to defend...
...purpose is not to defend or attack anyone but to reestablish the events as they occured. Sincerely yours, Robert A. Curuer...
...Kingdom of Hungary has no King but is ruled by His Serene Highness the Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, who maintains his unusual position by keeping up a personal Guard sworn to preserve, protect and defend Nicholas Horthy. From Budapest last week there arrived in the U. S. a significant picture (see cut) of the extremely practical Regent further entrenching himself in the devotion of his Guard by handing to the brave fellows on Christmas soap, bologna sausage, crockery, pots, pans and such especially prized gifts as an alarm clock and a meat grinder...
...page in Romeo and Juliet, of appearing in masculine costume. In other respects, Rose of the Rancho has more limited qualifications. Its story of how a U. S. Federal Agent (John Boles), dispatched to investigate the doings of the vigilantes, falls in love with Rosita and eventually helps defend her family hacienda against a gang led by Charles Bickford, belongs to the sorry tradition of pre-War operetta librettos. Spirited but silly, its best moments are those in which hook-nosed Willie Howard, as a Jewish gold prospector from the Deep South, and bespectacled Herb Williams, as a rapacious insurance...
Assuming the permanent, or continued break-down of the capitalist system, assuming that politicians of the future will show themselves as to-tally unintelligent, dishonest, and incompetent as politicians of the past, assuming that leaders in business continues to defend monopoly and lying advertisement and tariffs and liberty without law, then the best thing to do seems at least to insure that the innocent victims of such activity be provided for by the Government...