Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within six hours General Carmona had rallied a regiment to his support, marched through the streets of Lisbon to the Dictator's residence, arrested him, locked him up in the suburban Belem Palace...
...Dzerzhinsky demands the immediate training of an army of skilled workers. The peasantry must not be antagonized by being further taxed to support this army while it is being trained. The funds needed must come from "improvements in the administrative machinery of industry itself...
...notable for their implication that the present Soviet regime persists in its announced determination not to increase the burdens of the peasantry. Firmly entrenched against this view are the "economic opposition," a not unimportant group inspired by Professor Alexander Preobajensky and countenanced by Trotsky who demand that the peasantry support the re-organization of the urban proletariat...
...week reported on the fiscal year terminating April 30: Total receipts $1,482,083.00 Total expenses 1,881,997.28 Deficit 399,913.16 Individual subsidizers were compelled to put up 80% of their $500,000 guarantee. President Insull commented: " . . . . This willingness on the part of the citizens of Chicago to support financially the efforts of the Company is greatly appreciated by those who are conducting the affairs of the Company." The present season being the last under the present guarantee arrangement, necessity was apparent for new guarantees aggregating at least $500,000 annually if the thirst of the Chicago operagoer...
...Curtis-Reed bill, still pending in Congress, providing, not for Federal subsidy of education, but for putting Education on a footing equal to Agriculture, Commerce, War et al, in the nation's councils. The bill's backers would seek appropriations of $1,500,000 per annum to support the Secretary of Education, to conduct the pedagogical research and advisory work now performed by the Bureau of Education in the Department of the Interior. The assembly unanimously adopted a report by investigators into the lot of the superannuated school teacher. What she dreads most is a lonely...