Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admiration of non-member students is another. By allying themselves with any narrow group possessing strictly limited aims and views, Union members would completely nullify any chance of attaining that power. By steering clear of all entanglements, the Union can prove its level-headedness and win ultimate and universal support for future liberal work...
They have not only side problems to keep out of the picture* but a mixed group of interests to contend with: Chile and several other nations whose political sympathies are with Fascism; Mexico whose sympathies are with Communism; Argentina who wants to support the League of Nations; Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and several small nations who would like to withdraw from the League of Nations to form an American League. Almost anything might come out of this combination because the agenda are broad enough to cover two continents. They permit the consideration of creating an Inter-American Court of Justice...
...doings of zealous local chapters never escape tut-tutting at sessions of the National Interfraternity Conference, which represents the elders of 62 U. S. Greek Letter societies. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Conference administered to Hell Week its severest slap to date by resolving "to give cordial support to measures to abolish Hell Week taken by any college or university...
Tough and militant is Seattle Labor. In 1919, the city was the scene of a general strike. This year, the handful of striking Guildsmen could not have closed the P-I without the support of dock workers and truckmen who failed to scare when the town's conservatives, encouraged by such leading citizens as Publisher Clarance Brettun Blethen of the Times, talked of forming vigilante bands to break the picket lines...
First was a proposal for a retailing "NRA" founded on state instead of Federal statutes. At the next Dry Goods convention in January the general membership will be asked to approve a program calling for support in state legislatures of model laws covering wages, hours, child labor, deceptive advertising, misleading labeling and price cutting. All this looked like a smart attempt to head off Federal legislation in the next Congress. Ground for this suspicion was broadened last week when the Dry Goods Association belatedly announced that it had quit the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...