Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsmen, calculating roughly on their cuffs, figured that Mr. Morgenthau's services to the Government would thus terminate in about nine months-unless Congress saw fit to move its chair back to higher ground. That move is just what the next session of Congress is expected to make, with only a modicum of fuss-but the Republican fuss can be counted on to be more than a modicum...
When the returns were in last week, Mr. Pommer was back for his 42nd year, now as senior councilman. Keystone of his winning campaign was his philosophy: "I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders...
...Bigelow Plan of Ohio, calling for a $50-a-month pension after the age of 60, went down, 1,527,577 to 460,537. Parimutuel went in in New York, setting Pundit Mark Sullivan a brooding: if you check gambling on the stock exchange, does it come surging back on the race tracks? Socialist Jasper McLevy stayed in as mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Socialist John Henry Stump went out as mayor of Reading, Pa. Boss Edward Crump was elected mayor of Memphis-only to keep his machine in power, since he is to reign for five minutes Jan. 1 before...
...hand into St. Louis, Newark, Atlantic City. He spread his power over the newborn labor rackets. He built a $65,000 walled fortress in Florida on Palm Island, near Miami. He turned up at theatres, thick lips puckered, flanked by watchful bodyguards. Honest men patted him gingerly on the back, said of him, "Great fellow, Al." He sat with society in Miami, he had a ringside seat at the big fights. His levy fell on millions-every man paid through his liquor, entertainment, food, clothing. The take of his racket organization was estimated at $30,000,000 a year...
...Amsterdam, leaving a flooded area from Ijssel Lake to the Waal and Maas Rivers to protect the western heart of the country including Utrecht and Rotterdam. Stranded in the middle of this flood would be the ex-Kaiser's home at Doom. Another secondary defense line would back up the main water line, running southwest from Utrecht to Breda, near the Belgian border...