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...University wrestling team will defend its brilliant record against the onslaughts of the Columbia grapplers at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Hemenway Gymnasium, while the 1928 team will oppose the M. I. T. Freshmen at 3 o'clock...
...minority report was voted on first. Senator Spencer undertook to defend it while the Democrats laid down a 'barrage of sarcasm. The vote was 42 for rejection and 28 for acceptance. The Democrats without exception voted for rejection. So also Farmer-Laborite Shipstead. The Republicans voted for acceptance with these exceptions: Insurgents Brookhart and Frazier (LaFollette and (Ladd being absent) ; semi-insurgents Norris and Norbeck who, as members of the committee, signed the majority report; Obstructionist Hiram Johnson; the Independents Couzens and Borah...
...rise to congratulate the State of Missouri upon possessing a representative so amiable and innocent that, like the three Japanese apes, he sees no evil, he hears no evil and he speaks no evil, and consequently is dully qualified to defend all evil-an innocent abroad, in the intellectual and political world, who finds virtue in every act and with unblushing confidence can defend every infamy...
Here Senator Bruce of Maryland interrupted to defend the services of the French to' us in our Revolution, concluding...
...anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile slander. Once Lord Cecil arose to withdraw his statement, but Mr. Porter would not yield the floor. Said he: "You can reply later." He went on to defend the U. S., quoted figure after figure, and ended with a transposition of James Russell Lowell's famed phrase: "Let us put Right on the throne and Wrong on the scaffold...