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...liberals and progressives cannot support a man who as President of the American Bar never opened his mouth through years of hysteria and persecution in defense of rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, a document which he seems solicitous to defend not when it is in danger of suspension, but only when it is in need of orderly and vital amendment...
...Democratic nominee has been accused of personal dishonesty, because he accepted employment under a great corporation as consulting attorney. If Mr. Davis believes that a concern such as Morgan & Co. is a menace to our country, could be conscientiously agree to defend its interests for a consideration...
...auto camp." Guests no longer arrive bag and baggage via the railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars. Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week, and the landlord's toll is apt to be nightly rather than by the week or month...
...They declare that they are firmly resolved to use all the means which are in their power to obtain the immediate realization of their claims, and are resolved to defend with an inflexible energy their rights, their liberties and their traditions...
...lawyer in West Virginia, he had volunteered to defend miners arrested during strike troubles...