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Word: backing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon was more appalled by his new view of U. S. Communists and Nazis than by the antics of Martin Dies. Having come to check and scoff, the new member remained to respect the work if not the chairman of the committee. But last week Mr. Voorhis suddenly drew back, cried: "I can't vote for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...find or create a job for 23 others." Last week Legionnaires Miller and Carr reported results: eight jobs found, two in sight. Pennsy's President Martin Clement heard about the Legion, praised the clerks' initiative, saw that several (including Mr. Miller) got their old jobs back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Damned | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

With Langy Burwell, Penn Tuttie, and Gene Clark leading the way, Jaakko Mikkola's men will be slightly favored when they tackle the hilly four and one half mile course back of the Yale Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE, YARDLING ELEVENS TO SEE ACTIN AS HARRIERS, SOCCER TEAM PERFORM AWAY | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Tommy is on the right track. If he hangs onto Oliver and gets some men back into his band that know the meaning of swing and limits his own playing to lead solos, he'll start going up once more...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...feel that it is very unfortunate to imply that young men who have the convictions of the American Independence League as expressed in CRIMSON editorials are short-sighted or cowardly. Such use of epithets puts us almost back to the days when even sauerkraut must be called" liberty cabbage." Their program is true Americanism. If this is cowardice our forefathers were double cowards, because they took advantage of the embarrassment of the Hanoverlan dynasty with the French to withdraw from the British Empire in the wars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zimmerman Flays Pro-British Stand of McLaughlin, Praises Pacifists Bravery | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

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