Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been supposed that sailors have a wife in every port, but I am sorry to see TIME support this fiction by placing my salty uncle, Paul Hammond, in the difficult position of a bigamist (TIME, Aug. 28, photo "Professor and Mrs. Morison," accompanying article "After Columbus"). Actually, the photograph is of Skipper Hammond and Mrs. Morison...
...armies of the south swept on into the Industrial Triangle to take Sandomierz, Poland's munitions centre. Mechanized columns, whirling far ahead of infantry following in trucks, seized Kielce, Radom, Lódź (the textile centre). The entry of one motorized unit, traveling far ahead of its support, into the heart of Warsaw, led to premature announcement of the capital's invasion on Friday. Snipers at windows, machine gunners on roofs, drove the invaders back to Warsaw's southwestern suburbs, but there the main German forces soon arrived, too, and Warsaw was hemmed...
...banks by liquidating their Governments, which would really break the market. A good many other holders felt otherwise, decided to free their funds for more profitable war boom uses. By the end of the week, an estimated $350,000,000 of Federal Reserve money had been poured in to support the market and the average price for all Treasury bonds was over 5 points below their 1939 highs (an immense loss for Governments, which usually rise or fall by 32nds). But the market did level off and the Federal Reserve stepped...
...this ideal that is at the basis of France's and Turkey's policy. . . ." Giving Mr. Erkin scarcely time to get settled in Paris, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet went to work on him to arrange how and when the Allies might use the Dardanelles in a push to support Poland through her southeast postern...
March 31. After consultation with Poland Chamberlain told the House of Commons: "In the event of any action . . . which the Polish Government . . . considered it vital to resist with their national forces, the [British] Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power...