Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drawback to Chicago's present arrangement is the short (five-week) season which makes it impossible to maintain a creditable resident company. Makeshift is to pay for a few big names to bolster up a list of mediocres. For his trump cards this season Longone will present Lehmann in Der Rosenkavalier, Prague's Mila Kocava in her U. S. debut, pretty Helen Jepson as the profligate Thais, the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma, the world premiere of Ethel Leginska's Gale with John Charles Thomas singing and the bushy-haired composer conducting...
AAAdministrator Chester Davis were early callers, "bringing the President up to date on our activities." To bolster their corn-hog vote campaign (see col. 3), they later got a statement out of the President in which he declared AAA was on the books to stav. "It was never the idea of the men who framed the Act," said President Roosevelt, ". . . that the AAA should be either a mere emergency operation or a static agency. It was their intention, as it is mine, to pass from the purely emergency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a longtime, more permanent...
...death of his grandfather, the late great Menelik II, Lij Yasu seized the throne of Ethiopia, won a grudging allegiance from the most important Rases. Almost immediately he got into difficulties. None too ardent a Christian, he attempted to bolster his reign by organizing a federation of tributary Mohammedan States. He promptly found himself excommunicated by the Coptic Church, and shortly thereafter pushed from the throne by his aunt, Zauditu (Judith) with the aid of his cousin, wily Ras Tafari, the present Haile Selassie...
...averaged $800,000 over the past ten years and reached a Depression high of $848,925 in 1934, will be used primarily to keep his properties alive and prosperous, on the theory that no press can be free which is not financially independent. What profits are not needed to bolster business will be devoted exclusively to "general philanthropic" work in the cities where the papers are published...
...were voluntary adjustments in publicly-owned issues of Van Sweringen Corp. and Alleghany that were about to default. The Morgan loan was obtained five years ago largely to pay off nearly $20,000,000 owing to the brokerage firm of Paine, Webber & Co. and to purchase Government securities to bolster the shrinking collateral behind Alleghany debentures...