Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slight, bushy-haired Congressman Rankin, has a reputation as a liberal, largely because of his ardent support of TVA, and his spleen seemed to be caused by labor trouble in Tupelo, Miss., the model TVA consumer town. There, declared Mr. Rankin, the way NLRB men had "helped destroy" the cotton mill and "the brutal manner in which they are now trying to destroy the garment factories" was "enough to stir the people of my State to revolt...
...idea that the Council should seek support from some private foundation, borrowing meantime from the Treasury...
...reporters wanted to know whether General Yang thinks his onetime captive, Dictator Chiang, is really in earnest now about hurling Chinese might against Japan, or may have to be kidnapped again. "If the Generalissimo leads the country to put up a strong resistance, the whole country will support him!" firmly replied General Yang, adding softly after a puff at his cigar: "If the Generalissimo does not put up a strong resistance-in that event I am not sure what would happen to our great leader...
...First Rebel to support his claim, that distinction really belongs to a band of Pennsylvania frontiersmen known as the Black Boys who, ten years before Lexington, captured two British forts, destroyed licensed pack trains carrying guns to the Indians, thumbed their noses while British generals and Royal Governor John Penn fumed and threatened or merely whimpered helplessly that "they use the Troops upon every occasion with such indignity & abuse that Flesh and Blood cannot bear it." Leader of these slippery, hard-hitting rebels (who insisted, however, they were as loyal subjects as any), was a man named James Smith. Central...
...called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact of its variability does support the legend that Pleïone was once a conspicuous member of the Seven Sisters...