Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play does not give Miss Bergner the opportunity to display her best talents inasmuch as her sprightly appeal is only with difficulty adapted to the role of Empress. Douglas Fair-banks, Jr. and Flora Robson, the famous English stage actress, give excellent support in the roles of Czar and the dying Empress from whose once capable hands Catherine II has to take the reins of government. The English eye for details is less keen than that of Hollywood and the pomp and pageantry which abound lack the conviction which recent domestic historical films have attained. In spite of these defects...
TIME does not think that 66,000,000 Germans are fools. However, according to the Nation, recently the German Bureau of Vocational Guidance applied to the National Socialist People's Relief Administration to obtain support for more than 2,000 unmarried girls who had become pregnant on duty with the Landhilfe (farm labor brigades...
Teachers College delegates usually father the big-sounding resolutions that N.E.A. usually passes but last week's biggest-sounding resolution came from an unexpected source. The American Legion, which last year soothed N.E.A. by withdrawing its support of the hated teachers' oath legislation of 27 States, appeared in the person of Oklahoma's eloquent Senator Josh Lee, who demanded a "draft of all money and materials of war as well as men." Stealing Teachers College thunder, the Legion Schoolmasters hustled a resolution to that effect past the Resolutions Committee directly to the floor. Having passed it with...
...addition he has been acting as head of the Aviation Division of the International Brigade in support of the Loyalists. With Fischer, correspondent of the "Nation" in Madrid, Malraux comes here at the beginning of a brief tour of America...
...University for the freedom from interference which it allowed and the support which it gave, to the guests for their time and interest, to the professors for their constant assistance, to graduates who gave money, and to those students who worked to make the Conference a success, the "Crimson" extends its official and sincere thanks. May Yale be as fortunate in finding such happy circumstances next year...