Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adjournment. By the time the rest of his legions had poured into Washington in chartered busses and ramshackle autos to pitch their tents in West Potomac Park, there was no Legislature to intimidate. Lost, moreover, in the adjournment shuffle was the bill the march had been organized to support : a proposal introduced by Washington's Senator Lewis Schwellenbach providing for: 1) no further reductions in WPA rolls, 2) reinstatement of all WPAers unable to get work, 3) a "furlough status" for those finding temporary private employment...
...Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas. Actually, Rightist Spain is no more dominated by one party than Leftist Spain. The little villagers of the northwest are ablaze with the slogan: ONE COUNTRY, ONE ARMY, ONE CAUDILLO. But no such unity prevails among the wildly assorted groups which are loosely allied in support of the Spanish Fascist State...
Socialist Party workers egged the peasants on by promising support for their cause. At Cracow, factory and transport workers staged a 24-hour general strike as a sympathetic gesture. "Solidarity strikes" were called in the Trzebinia and Chrzanow industrial districts...
...community. It is frequently said that a man can get from college just as much as he is willing to put in. This is a true motto a far as it goes, but no college can be regarded as successful unless it produces graduates willing and able to support it for the benefit of future generations coming on. And it is significant that for over three hundred years Harvard has been perpetuated and improved by men to whom she gave their early training and their zest for intellectual endeavor...
While General Franco strutted in the theatre of war, in Brussels Revue Belge published an interview in which he greeted the Belgians, promised that after "my victory" Italy, Germany would not be specially favored by the new Spain, that even France, despite surface Leftist support, would be treated with equality. Franco said he wanted to be friends with all countries except Soviet Russia...