Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Divine's cultists live in noisy, overcrowded "Heavens" which the Father has lately been moving, away from Harlem and its rival evangelists, to farms, where working "Angels" can feed and support themselves. Pardonably proud was Father Divine to announce last week that he had bought a new Heaven, an estate in an exclusive neighborhood. The estate: 500-acre "Krum Elbow" near Highland-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. Most exclusive neighbor (1,800 ft. directly across the river): Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The seller: eccentric, Roosevelt-hating Socialite Howland Spencer...
...declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union and C. I. O. men. While Kraschel troopers ruled Newton and the Governor garnered much labor support in his campaign for reelection, NLRB Examiner Madison Hill heard testimony that Maytag, local authorities and Judge Homer A. Fuller wanted to smash...
Kentucky, where the Committee told Senator Barkley to hurry up and send back his campaign expenditures questionnaire. A Committee investigator was sent back to look further into charges of WPA support for Mr. Barkley and also into the operation of Governor Chandler's State machine. Mr. Chandler (see p.11) frankly admitted to the Committee that State employes had been chosen chiefly from among his friends. But the Committee's biggest news was Tennessee. Upon scanning an investigator's report on that State, the Committee quickly sent him-and six more men-back for further details. While Senator...
...directors who was in step, 2) Franklin Roosevelt was fully informed of the Morgan v. Morgan & Lilienthal rift from its inception, but did nothing about it until Arthur Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support of his complaints that the other directors shoved him around', deceived him, the public and the President, wasted TVA money, based yardstick rates on spurious or nonexistent cost calculations. But if Oldster Arthur Morgan would cut no capers to supply entertainment, loud Representative Thomas A. Jenkins, a Republican from Ironton, Ohio, made...
...girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped to the stand to support him. Said Lord Horder: "As far as I can judge, the facts would have led me to the same conclusion as Dr. Bourne...