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...democracy which we defend is a process, a movement in a certain direction: and if we cease to move in that direction we cease to be a democracy. If in our defending we cease to move in that direction, then what we defend is not a democracy...
Since his return to the United States Mowrer has been the Washington correspondent of the Chicago News, and has recently become extremely active as a lecturer for the Committee to Defend America by Alding the Allies. His anti-Nazi views have been expounded in a number of books, among which "Germany Turns Back the Clock" and "The Dragon Awakes" are the best known...
...jerked off his skullcap. Mr. Hughes stated the oath and the President repeated the worn, full, old words: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...busy practicing parachute landings in Pomeranian potato fields, scowling, 35-year-old former World's Champion Max Schmeling turned down the challenge of Vienna's Heinz Lazek to defend his heavyweight championship of the Axis. Declared blonde Anny Ondra, his actress wife: "Max will fight soon-but not in the boxing ring...
Tommy's pathetic fear of the amatory competitor of his youth, and his belief that his wife still loves the other man, lead to the high point of the play, a scene in which, fortified by a liberal dose of scotch, he decides to defend his mate by force, "like a tiger and his cubs." His eventual victory over the forces of ignorance is a wonderful boost to an intellectual ego shot to pieces by a week of midyears...