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...threatened to take Trotsky [from his house] by force. . . . Trotsky refused to go. The police picked up his overcoat and began to force him into it. His wife tried to communicate with somebody by telephone and they dragged her roughly from the instrument. Trotsky's son attempted to defend his father and was subdued in a fist fight...
...Harvard indoor tennis team will defend its position as national intercollegiate team champion in the second annual Intercollegiate Indoor tennis tournament to be held Friday and Saturday at Cornell University, Ithaca...
...Many people hate us because we are Italians and because we are Fascisti. We must be ready to defend ourselves in both capacities." Little Brother Arnaldo wrote editorially in Il Popolo d' Italia (unquestionably with Il Duce's authority) : ". . . A solution of the differences between the Roman Church and the Italian State will be impossible for another half century." Thus was significantly trumpeted the disastrous breakdown of recent Italo- Vatican negotiations which had seemed at one time to be drawing very near an amicable agreement. Pope Pius XI and Il Duce were reported to have been in substantial...
...Never Learn. The life of a lawyer is hard, particularly when he commits murder and is called upon to defend the victim inaccurately accused of the same homicide. This lawyer had murdered a lover of his own mistress. The whole matter was naturally distressing to his wife and little ones at home. Likewise to the audience, which was not amused...
...when they kill children on the street, when they take American girls to places for debauchery and debauch them and brag on it, and openly violate the Constitution otherwise, it is time to lay aside courtesy, and instead of having troops in Nicaragua, where we have no business to defend money interests, we should bring them here and put them on the streets of the District of Columbia to protect the lives and the property and the virtue of the women of our country and the lives of our little boys and girls...