Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After his fact-finding board on railroad wages reported to him that a pay-cut at this time was unjustified, the President saw railroad executives, promised to support railroad legislation to find other means of saving the roads from ruin...
...Roosevelt's State Department for being a Communist (TIME, Oct. 24). Bailed out of Ellis Island on condition that he deliver no lectures. Red-stained Mr. Strachey nevertheless managed to throw a dubious kiss at Franklin Roosevelt: "My chief regret is that I cannot now express publicly my support for the New Deal and my detestation of Fascism and Nazism in all their forms...
...this week was probably hiding in what would correspond to "Kansas City." Meanwhile, the nominal President of China, Mr. Lin Sen, and other Cabinet members have been established for several months at Chungking ("Denver"). They met last week with Chinese Communist leaders who were reported "threatening" to withdraw their support from the Government unless it reaffirmed unconditional support of Generalissimo Chiang, and this was given...
...Marseille last week Orator Daladier burst out against the Communists in a speech aimed to gather as much support as possible from all other French Parties: "One party can say to me that it always favored an uncompromising attitude, even should that lead to war. . . . That is, the Communist Party! The violence and intransigence of this party sought to paralyze my action. When its newspapers, its orators coarsely attacked Chamberlain who worked with admirable faith for safety and peace, did that not weaken the position of France? When they addressed daily challenges to the French Government did that facilitate...
Saltonstall was asked what the support of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, another Harvard man, meant to him. "Senator Ledge has done all he can and I'm grateful to him," he answered. "He has been a great help...