Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popularity as affected by the Supreme Court issue. This showed a bigger change in his popularity than took place at any time during the campaign. Whereas 14 months ago 84.8% of those who were critical of the Court favored him, only 66.4% do so today, and among those who support the Court-as-is, his popularity has fallen from 35.9% to 23.6%. More to the point: although two months ago 52.6% of the voters in the FORTUNE poll favored giving him a third term, today only 45% do so and 55% oppose it-the most serious drop yet recorded...
With surprising gumption Dr. Schuschnigg said no. Subsequently he was understood to have learned that France and Britain were finally willing to support him with something more than fine words. It was to prevent Hungary from following this uncomfortable lead that last week's visit was arranged. There were peasant processions, State dinners, and the director of the Budapest museum gave little Vittorio Emanuele three small silver coins to add to his numismatic collection...
...Philadelphia Council hearing, Mayor S. Davis Wilson asked Board Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of the Municipal Gas Corporation to support his campaign to reduce Philadelphia's gas rate from 90? to 50 per 1,000 cubic ft. Replied wealthy Octogenarian Vauclain. also board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works: "Fifty-cent gas is no more possible than my going to Heaven when...
...looked as though Humble? would have its way. At Austin the Legislature adjourned without acting on any of the bills introduced by Humble's opponents, leaving the matter up to the State Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil industry. In Washington Secretary of Agriculture Wallace withdrew his support from the fishing interests, saying he was convinced Humble would leave Texas waters fit for fish...
Biochemistry is a definite line of scientific approach, however, and the utility of such training is not limited to the status of a handmaiden to medicine. That at Harvard it has become nothing more for the undergraduate is due entirely to the half-hearted support in equipment and courses the university provides to supplement the ambitions efforts of an eager tutorial staff...