Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been inviolate to both parties and unless it remains so the entire structure of the Federal Government will be altered. Last November the issue was not raised. President Roosevelt is willing to revert to the discredited methods of Republican Reconstructionists. No reading of history, no twisting of logic can support a policy of packing the Court, whatever the ends in view...
...Coast. The public, however, lulled into lethargy by such gilded phrases as "economic royalists", and "well warmed capitalists in well warmed clubs" that were on the lips of the winning candidates in the last election, was slow to force action, and it was only when Mr. Bridges saw his support slipping away from him, that he became eager to confer on other than the "basic demand" of complete monopoly...
...United States out of Washington and this Administration out of power. "The Administration asked Labor to help it repel this attack, and Labor helped the President to repel the economic royalists. The same economic royalists now have their fangs in Labor, and Labor expects the Administration to support the auto workers in every legal way in their fight. "Labor is on the march in this country toward those better things .and better days so eloquently described from time to time by the President of the United States." The words were hardly off Mr. Lewis' mimeograph when it appeared that...
...motors production employes had signed petitions or otherwise protested against being thrown out of work by the strike of the upstart union. This, said the union, was due to company coercion. Impartial observers did not credit the union's claim that it had the support of a majority, and the union made no attempt to prove it in the one way possible: by appealing to the National Labor Relations Board which would order an election. Making peace as well as making war was part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum...
...Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination- almost the last stand-of the Romantic Movement in music," was a Petersburg law student of 22 when he first became seriously interested in music. Once he caught fire he blazed up. But he had no money, had to support himself by teaching a heavy schedule at Rubinstein's Moscow Conservatory. At 37 he had become a composer but he was still just a music-teacher. When Rubinstein went to 45-year-old Nadejda von Meek, music-loving widow of a railroad tycoon and Moscow's richest woman...