Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposed by the House as money for a "joy ride" (TIME, June 12), but shoved through with the third deficiency bill by Senate pressure, $340,000 became available last week to send Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd back to Little America, claim a lot more of it for the U. S. The far-roving mind of Franklin Roosevelt was captivated by Admiral Byrd's arguments for this venture and last week, after a map session at his desk, he ordered the expedition to proceed by early October. In on the planning were Commandant (Rear Admiral) Russell Randolph Waesche...
President Thomas' superiors in C. I. O., Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, backed him up with an eloquence and alacrity which clearly reflected C. I. O.'s larger interest in the situation. Homer Martin, president of U. A. W.'s A. F. of L. wing, snarled back at them that the strike was an "outlaw" designed to "pit a few hundred skilled workers against more than 100,000 production workers...
...Chinese were killed or wounded in the ensuing holocaust. Once again Colonel Stimson tried to rally Britain by suggesting that the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, which Japan had signed at Washington in 1922, be invoked. Once again Sir John Simon turned his back. The Japanese, undisturbed, made mince meat of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army...
...home without passing any new neutrality legislation this summer, the previous legislation-minus "cash & carry"-will still stand. If the fight over neutrality laws is too long and too futile, a growing disgust may lead Congress and the people to wash their hands of the whole business and fall back on old-fashioned international...
Early this week, at long last, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain got around to uttering the dread word Danzig. In a statement approved in advance by Poland and France, the Prime Minister tried to set at rest any lingering doubts that his Government would back up the Poles in resisting a German conquest of the Free City...