Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles E. Coughlin boasted that he would swing 9,000,000 votes in the last Presidential campaign, but neither major party made any noticeable effort to enlist his support. When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great...
...they called Temple Methodist. Their optimism the Methodists expressed by building a 27-story hotel, highest on the Pacific Coast, at Leavenworth & McAllister streets in downtown San Francisco. The William Taylor Hotel, with a cathedral-like, 1,300-seat church concealed in its second, third and fourth floors, would support Temple Church, everyone felt, retire its $1,550,000 in first mortgage bonds at maturity. But more funds were needed and before the hotel was completed in 1930 the Methodists floated a $150,000 second mortgage issue, borrowed $100,000 privately, obtained $534,000 more through mortgages sold...
...partisan Republicans, the professional patriots, the underworld forces and all the reactionary elements, which in 1936 waged a slanderous, slimy, insolent, stupid and disastrous communistic campaign against President Roosevelt, plus a few nominal Democrats of mercenary inclination, now wage precisely the same sort of campaign against me and in support of you, as they supported Merriam in 1934 and Landon...
...ready to help a Huey Long. There are politicians, some in the Senate, I have heard, who think that they may come into power like that of the European dictators. . . . One man, I have been told by personal friends, who owns nearly a billion dollars, is ready to support such a program and, of course, control...
...varying from as low as $15,000,000 to as high as $90,000,000. Commercially, even great De Beers is subordinate to its potent subsidiary. During the darkest Depression days De Beers ceased selling diamonds entirely so that Diamond Corp. might have more resources to throw to the support of uncut diamond prices. Even then Diamond Corp. could not afford to buy all the diamonds offered by the alluvial producers, and the industry resorted to a strict quota system...