Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached between French Senator Leon Berard and Spanish Foreign Minister Count Francisco de Jordana before French recognition of the Franco Government. French Premier Daladier demanded that Spain first take back all of the 400,000 Spanish refugees on French soil who want to go back, and pay for the support of the rest. Upshot was that Senor Lequerica threatened to return to Burgos for good. Premier Daladier's Government did not seem to care much...
...MacLoish, in expressing his support of the magazine, asserted that "Harpy" would fulfill a special need in the three colleges, for it represents a new departure in intercollegiate journalism...
That in the simplest terms, is the fundamental dilemma the good neighbor policy is attempting to resolve. In spite of the grudging support or open opposition of American financial interests, it is attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention...
...here as everywhere there is a dilemma and a compromise required. An unmitigated policy of giant-killing produces a topheavy teaching structure: luxuriant foliage at top, but no roots to feed and support. A continuous effort to garner big names means neglect of the large body of instructors who provide most of the teaching. The non-exceptional student suffers by having less and poorer guidance at his disposal...
...four years. Bethlehem Steel's order book now contains $71,000,000 of naval business (total unfilled orders: $192,000,000, largest in peacetime history) but, staggered over three or four years, this comes out as only $18-23,000,000 a year, not nearly enough to support the company's overall production much above the rate for the steel industry as a whole, or to reverse the trend that is now carrying it down...