Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf soon will be over the fence. Minister Delbos reassuringly announced: "France stands by her pledged word that she will submit to all sacrifices to sustain mutual obligations under treaties and support all aims to safeguard peace...
...Commons appeared last week to have reached a new estimate of Franklin Roosevelt. When the President at the opening of his first term gave vigorous encouragement to the World Economic Conference convened in London by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and then proceeded from Washington to withdraw his support and wreck that conference, British public opinion was incensed. Soon afterward, however, the British began little by little to be dazzled by the bursting glory of the New Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget-balancing Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem...
...Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited Editions Club's suave Director George Macy awarded four $2,000 "fellowships" to support them while each illustrated a suitable U. S. classic, as yet unnamed...
...premiere last week the much-discussed concerto's orchestral score was outlined by a piano accompaniment. Judging by the rather sketchy results, critics were inclined to support Joachim's deprecation of the work. Typical of Schumann were its lyric melody, its cyclical form and the elusive rhythm of its slow movement. Also typical was its occasional awkwardness for the violin (Schumann was a pianist). Very obvious, despite Menuhin's contentions, was the need of editing. Most of the important violin concertos by great masters have either been edited by, or written in collaboration with, some eminent violinist...
...Leighty Johnson brought suit for $502,539 damages against Western Air Express Corp. and others for having deprived her of 20 future years' support when her husband, Jungle-Explorer Martin Elmer Johnson died following last January's air crash near Burbank, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25). Among defendants she named her sister-in-law, Frieda Johnson Cripts, in a legal move to find out what claims if any Mrs. Cripts has on the explorer's estate...