Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wassily W. Leontief, assistant professor of Economics and Dr. Machlup of Tufts then brought the wage increase problem to the fore and questioned the ease with which taxes could support the increased interest rates...
...attributed Roosevelt's efforts to unite the warring factions to the fact that the Chief Executive realizes that dualism in union leadership will tend both to weaken and split the Labor vote. The instructor did not doubt that William Green will throw his support as well as that of other A. F. of L. leaders with the Republican party in the coming Presidential election unless the wound in Labor ranks is healed...
...pianist, advised him to stick to composition. But Paderewski had to keep on. At 20 he had fallen in love with a fellow student at the conservatory and married. A year later his young wife had died, leaving him alone in the world with a hopelessly crippled son* to support. For years he roamed Europe teaching in schools and conservatories, earning enough to keep his son cared for and himself alive. He was always sure, in spite of gloomy predictions, that he would one day become a great concert artist...
...vigorous support which Catholic priests and lay groups have given the Chicago Newspaper Guild in its strike against the Herald & Examiner and American has been a matter of grave concern to pious Catholic Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearst-papers. Month ago he reportedly made a vain effort to present in person the Hearst case to George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last week, the American began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome...
...play which gave the young actors their name was produced in an attempt to expose the causes for a condition that had long existed in all large American cities. Largely as a result of the play and its celluloid counterparts, welfare agencies have benefitted from increased public interest and support in the work of juvenile guidance...