Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the stock-market is happy and the motor industry hale, there will be plenty of people who want to go to U. S. prizefights, however wretched they may be. It is not probable therefore that Max Schmeling, if he becomes heavyweight champion, will be expected to defend his title in the back rooms of speakeasies, like John L. Sullivan, or on a barge, like James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett. The other champions,* of whom Tex Rickard made a list before he died, are as well off as ever. But perhaps million-dollar gates are now definitely in the past...
...purpose of the game, offensively, is to knock down with the ball either or both of two loose-balanced wickets which it is the batsman's business to defend. When one of the batsmen knocks the ball away from his wicket, he may exchange places with the other batsman, thus scoring a run. The procedure of scoring does not greatly differ from that used in two-old-cat; but cricket is unique among all games for profound, untechnical and subtle reasons. Its rhythm, the pace at which its climaxes are reached and at which they disappear, is slower than anything...
...Because the reorganized Ford Motor Co. Ltd. of England will give employment to thousands of Britons who need jobs badly, the Labor Party rallied last week to defend Motor Man Ford from the criticisms of Banker Grenfell M.P. Since Fords are everywhere rivaled by General Motor's products; and since J.P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan have helped to finance General Motors, the Laborites thought that they saw a shrewd opening to flay London's Grenfell M.P. for having flayed Motor Man Ford in the House of Commons...
...people of other states are not hesitating to defend their position by means of high tariffs. It is time for the Empire to assert itself. This may sound curious from an old free trader like myself. But conditions have changed and the traditional free trade sentiment of the British public has changed with them. More iron is wanted in the soul of this country! We must have the courage to put a high tariff wall around the Empire...
...embarrassing the party in power are not calculated to promote the best interests of the country. It would be regarded as a constructive achievement if the Democratic party at Washington were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability to bring about party unity for the solution of these problems would then fix the responsibility and make a record upon which a successful campaign can be waged four years from...