Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facts triumphantly cited in here pamphlet do not support the Woolley claim that the Trustees were sexually biassed. Seventy prominent women came up for examination and were rejected during the two year search, but only after three women turned down the offer did it go to a man. Nonetheless Dr. Woolley stands on record as desiring a woman, any woman, in preference to a competent man. Such opposition before he takes office must be acutely embarrassing to Dr. Ham. In reality by breaking the century old tradition of its greatest fort the shows that the feminist movement has come...
...President had used the injunction as an excuse, had really broken off the pool negotiations for other reasons. So doing he clearly rebuffed the plea of Chairman Arthur Morgan of TVA for a peaceful effort to get along with the utilities (TIME, Jan. 25), had decided to keep the support of TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal, of Senators Norris, La Follette, McKellar and others advocating war to the death on private power...
...individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people...
...made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause of the Interstate Commerce Act. This clause makes it illegal to charge less for, say, a haul over the same route between Chicago and Pittsburgh (471 mi.) than between Chicago and Cleveland (340 mi.) In competition with trucks...
...Paris to save money. After eight restless months in Rouen, Mette suggested they go to Denmark while they still had enough for the trip. Gauguin agreed. In Denmark his in-laws received him coldly, looked down on him still further when Mette had to start giving French lessons to support them. Gauguin and his painting materials were relegated to a little back room. Finally he decided to leave. He and Mette parted calmly. Neither of them thought it was forever...