Word: supporting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brazil's Vargas had more to comfort him last week than the prospect of a rest. Big, swashbuckling Governor Flores da Cunha of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, who rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship...
...Rule bill, fell in love with red-haired Katie O'Shea. Her husband Willie connived at their romance until it suited his purpose to sue for divorce. When Parnell failed to defend the suit, he lost not only the public that had idolized him but Gladstone's support for his bill and all chance of Home Rule for Ireland. He died a year later...
...Installed in a twelve-room suite for his parents and medical retinue headed by Harvard-trained Dr. Claude Ellis Dorkner of Peiping, Fred B. Snite thus last week sailed for Chicago, hoping for a few more years of life before his unusable muscles and joints become too frail to support his will to live...
Last February, The Nation antagonized its angel by greeting Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan with tempered approval as "a brilliant tour de force. . . . It is the task of progressives to support the measure-with an open-eyed awareness of its shortcomings...
Announced by Carleton's President Donald John Cowling was a $500,000 gift from Trustee Kellogg, the income from which will be spent to support at Carleton the "Frank B. Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Relations." For the two full professors and one half-time visiting professor who will lecture on the Foundation, Mr. Kellogg stipulated that "the Pact of Paris is frankly accepted as embodying the basic principle in accordance with which the relations of all nations must ultimately be organized." The Foundation, completely budgeted by cautious Oldster Kellogg, also provides for six scholarships, two to send...