Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students should not support Sullivan merely because he has ceased to make them the butt of his new stories. Much more convincing are "his generosity to the needy people of the ward" and his improvement in the sewerage system which eliminated the danger of flooded cellars. To his job as Councillor, Sullivan has lent a "glamor" which "The Boston Evening American" admits "would take a whole page" to describe and which is rivaled only by B.D.D. Frazier in her own Ward. For the Harvard voter there is but one choice for City Councillor, and if he is slightly hesitant, Sullivan...
Soviet Russia's first move, according to the best information correspondents could get, would not be to seize Bessarabia but to give Bulgaria strong support to demand from Rumania the return of Dobruja. Dobruja is a province that Bulgaria lost to Rumania in 1913. Bulgaria has undertaken to barter almost her whole exportable surplus of raw materials to Germany, thus is economically to a great extent under Adolf Hitler's thumb, and the Balkans feared that Russia and Germany would try a "pressure pincers" on Rumania. King Carol, alarmed, conferred with Rumanian political leaders of all parties...
Research gathered by Author Ickes to support his contention is impressive, comes largely from such unimpeachable sources as Editor & Publisher and from newspapermen's own writings. Thereby Mr. Ickes makes himself a monkey. For Ickes quotes so many criticisms of the press by newsmen themselves that he overturns his own argument, shows that, if many publishers diligently suppress unpleasant facts, others with equal diligence uncover them. He offers no panacea to correct the abuses he recites, piously admits that "We cannot control the press without losing our essential liberties...
Their program includes support of a popular war referendum amendment to the Constitution "to take the war-making power out of Congress and put it into the hands of the people," the statement said...
...support a united front of Youth and Labor against the entrance of the United States into the War," the statement of the executive committee said...