Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their National Council at first voted- in effect reversing their previous stand- to participate in any Government, even one lacking Communists, committed to a Popular Front program. Later the Socialists changed their minds, promised Chautemps only their votes in the Chamber of Deputies. Despite the tenuousness of this support, he made it this week the basis of a projected all-Radical Socialist cabinet...
...resolution signed by the Governors endorsing "a floor for wages and a ceiling for hours." Since the Southern bloc in the House defeated the Wages & Hours Bill last month, some newshawks jumped at the conclusion that the President and Governors had made a deal, they to furnish Southern support for Wages & Hours, he to get them lower freight rates. If any such deal was made, it did not seem likely to succeed. The Southern Governors cannot speak for their Congressmen any more than the President can speak for the ICC, but both sides may well have expressed their good intentions...
...build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building...
...first sizable structure Wright has had a chance to build since the Imperial Hotel, and it ranks with that masterpiece as an engineering feat. Wright's plans for it set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. The columns by which the architect proposed to support his building were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a base 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning, these slenderizing pencils would take about two tons weight each where they were called on to support...
Sponsoring the meeting are progressive forces such as the State Federation of Labor, the Massachusetts Council of Teachers' Unions, the League of Women Voters, and the Civil Liberties organization. Norman B. Nash, Robert Paino Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Episcopal Theological School has lent his support to the movement...