Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest an erroneous impression prevail, I am impelled to direct your attention to the paragraph in your issue of Nov. 9, p. 26 which includes this statement: "Despite lukewarm support from Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine, Democratic Governor Henry Horner piled up a 293,000 lead in Cook County...
...asked social-minded Mr. Justice Brandeis, was it any more unjust than to make every taxpayer help support public schools, whether or not he had children attending them...
...show business is that fastidious Actor Howard would rather be on the stage than in the films, would rather be on his country estate in England than anywhere. He undertook his own production of Hamlet to escape for a turn the shackles of the strictly commercial theatre. To support him he imported some middling Britons, including pretty Pamela Stanley as Ophelia, who would not dim the Howard brilliance. Unfortunately, this time there was no brilliance...
...most prized possession is a 13th-Century lute, in an elaborate routine, involving a letter from a condemned man to Patsy Smith (Edith Fellowes), orphan of a murdered father. "Pennies from Heaven-the coins tossed down to him from tenement windows-are the currency with which Larry undertakes to support Patsy and her Grandpa (Donald Meek...
...Geological Survey, a board of Army, engineers, a W.P.A. committee had any use whatsoever for the project. Even the abject House, for once, baulked at initialing the plan. The most ringing denunciation came from the Senate, where Senator Vandenburg introduced masses of damaging testimony, demanded and received the support of his colleagues in casting out the measure implementing the project, which had already been started by presidential fiat...