Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood by it. He knew that at such a late hour lifting the embargo would involve the U. S. in diplomatic trouble and threaten U. S. peace far more effectively than it could help Loyalist Spain. This put the President in an unusual spot for him: on the unpopular side of a question. But he did not refer to these facts when he replied, through the press, to the clamoring friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State Department, whose legalists gave his answer: The President is powerless to lift the embargo on Spain. The general Neutrality...
...longwinded Thomas led off for the Administration. Senator Borah was to follow him, Leader Barkley to conclude. Mr. Borah looked worried as the gentleman from Oklahoma droned on & on, about his favorite theme: printing press money. But Mr. Barkley remained serene even when Senator Thomas used up all his side's time and Messrs. Borah & Barkley could not speak...
...Aragon became scandalously inactive. So conspicuous was Barcelona's failure to wage effective warfare against the Fascists, either industrially or militarily, that a favorite, bitter Loyalist quip was that Catalonia, alone of 27 European nations, had lived faithfully up to the non-intervention agreement not to help either side in the Spanish War. In May 1937, Anarchists tried to seize Barcelona and the Central Government, then at Valencia, had to send troops to Catalonia to restore order...
...offered to supply a hall and provide Hicks with as many tickets as he will need for his "friends and followers" for a debate with him on the subject: "Resolved; That Communism is the enemy of American Democracy," of course, the Rev. Mr. Curran would take the affirmative side of the issue...
Jonathan Orestes Jones was a puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result: he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his own body-building establishment, General Manpower, Inc. But Orestes ran his racket with a difference: he rented out his customers-as strikebreakers, loggers, steelworkers, etc. These "units" of General Manpower not only drew high wages but owned a share in the business. Worked intensively but never long, they were guaranteed intermediate periods of "reconditioning" at the company...