Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt dispatched a message, conceding the place of Government unions in the U. S. Labor picture but sternly warning: "Militant tactics have no place in the function of an organization of Government employes. . . . Such action looking forward to the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable...
...March, Smigly-Rydz had his political tool, bald-headed Colonel Adam Koc (pronounced kotz) merge the Pilsudski Legionnaires with a few scattered middleclass, youth, workers' groups into a nucleus with the sonorous title "Camp of National Unity." Koc, realizing that "national unity" was an empty formula without support of two large groups-the National Democrats (made up of conservative nationalists) and the peasants- suggested to his political boss that concessions be made to induce one or both groups to join the united front. Price for peasant support was the return of Witos...
...paid a year's salary to stay away from Yale. "We must not," trumpeted Professor Davis, as the delegates arrived, "we cannot betray the organized workers of America by fighting the C. I. O. It is the historic mission of the A. F. of T. to support every progressive and successful labor movement. How can we possibly ignore the C. I. O. and be true to our heritage...
...Foundation declined 920 applications for aid. ("The Foundation does not make gifts or loans to individuals, or finance patents or altruistic movements involving private profit, or contribute to the building and maintenance of churches, hospitals, or other local institutions, or support campaigns to influence public opinion on any social or political questions...
...first serious mistake was to acquire the services of a notorious swindler named Parker H. French, whom he sent to San Francisco to recruit more men, to dicker with Vanderbilt's agents for a loan. When Walker should have executed French, he executed instead an innocent hostage. Native support almost completely vanished when he followed this up by shooting a popular enemy leader. But a worse mistake, even worse than sending French to Washington as Nicaraguan minister, was to revoke the Vanderbilt concession in favor of that hard-fisted financier's double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote...