Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Workers Organizing Committee has contracts with 565 producers and fabricators of steel, but Little Steel producers, including Messrs. Schwab and Grace, still stick to E. R. P. (modified so that the workers now support it). Last week NLRB Trial Examiner Frank Bloom, investigating a C. I. O. complaint, recommended that Bethlehem be required to abolish E. R. P. in nine of its 21 plants...
...Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of dealing with dictators. Long a sharp-tongued critic of Mr. Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Duchess, one of the brainiest women in British politics, has been tagged with such sobriquets as "Red Kitty" or the "Red Duchess" because of her support of Loyalist Spain and other causes unloved by Mr. Chamberlain's Conservative Party...
...West Perth and Kinross Conservative club, whose successful candidate she had been since 1923, had repudiated her, and the Duchess, backed by her wealthy, landowning husband, was seeking re-election on an Independent ticket. To assure her of Liberal and Laborite support, both those parties persuaded their candidates to withdraw. Her sole opponent was a well-to-do Perthshire farmer, William McNair Snadden, solidly backed by Chamberlain Conservatives...
...onetime Bull Mooser, was to have run, of course, as a New Deal Democrat. His back-out left the field to Mayor Edward J. Kelly and ambitious State's Attorney Tom Courtney. Mayor Kelly visited Washington to see what his chances were for Jim Farley's support...
Wilder discarded the possibility of a lack of interest in, or support of, the drama, as a plausible excuse for the decline of the theatre in Cambridge. "The mother of cooperation is merit," he said...