Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support is as good as one is accustomed to fine under a master. Robert Keith is in general quite satisfactory as Iago, although his appearance is more suggestive of a mischievous schoolboy than of a malignant traitor, and in spite of the somewhat excessive faces and eyes he makes. Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) is as vivacious and as sweet as Desdemona should be, but she can't help looking a little mature. Euqal praise might be extended to Natalie Hall as Emilia and G. P. Huntley, Jr. as Cassio...
...election campaigns were spread, by the opposition, to the effect that Governor Horner would be slighted, Chairman Nash and Mayor Kelly took the unprecedented action of personally sending to each of the more than 3,500 county precinct workers a telegram reinforcing the party position of wholehearted support for every candidate on the ticket...
These preballot box rumors perhaps may be the basis for such statements that the Democratic organization gave Governor Horner only "lukewarm support." Like many such pre-election rumors, this is without basis in fact...
...businessmen gave their support to the New Deal earlier or more enthusiastically than Charles Edison, head of Thomas A. Edison, Industries: the fair-sized electrical apparatus business that the Edisons salvaged from the late great Thomas Alva's historic inventions. The Roosevelt Administration was not a month old when President Edison, whose politics were previously recorded as Republican, plastered the walls of the Edison plant in West Orange, N. J. with a message urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party...
...many wives but no son. His adopted daughter, dumpy, 40-year-old Princess Dayang Dayang Piandao tried to seize the throne for herself or her husband (TIME, June 29). As a suffraget and a good friend of matronly Aurora Aragon Quezon, wife of the Commonwealth President she had the support of the Philippine Government which wants to bring the Moros under its thumb...