Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Unionist William Lemke barred from California's ballot, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend decided last week to vote for Alf Landon, summoned his California disciples to do likewise. "I cannot and will not," declared the old pensioneer, "support for the Presidency the man who is our sworn enemy. I advise that we choose the lesser of the two evils. . . ." Subsequently he gave the same advice to Townsendites in eight other States where Lemke will not be on the ballot: Florida, Oklahoma, Nevada, Kansas, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland...
...seen that he had given troubled thought to estate taxes. His will, dated May 9, 1933, when the New Deal was only two months old, left 17,100 shares of Macy stock (worth today $855,000) to 18 philanthropic and educational institutions. Beneficiaries included the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York (6,700 shares); Harvard University (3,300); Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital (1,700); Catholic Chari- ties of the Archdiocese of New York (700); Tuskegee Institute (200); New York Fire Department Relief Fund (200); Metropolitan Museum...
...confidently filed for the nomination, announced that after winning it he would withdraw any time Senator Norris asked him to. Dazed and dejected were Democratic regulars when they counted their primary votes, discovered that a political cuckoo named Terry Carpenter had thrust himself into their nest with the combined support of Townsendites, Coughlinites, Share-Our-Wealthers and Germans grateful for a speech he once made in the U. S. House defending Adolf Hitler...
...Father thinks your plan is the soundest approach to the problem. Mother agrees. I talked the whole thing over with her last night. She remarked that the proper settlement of the air mail problem and full support of the Subsistence Homestead Projects should be the first order of business with the Administration...
...Spain in Revolt" is valuable for the facts it presents rather than the interpretation of those facts. The authors are unrelenting supporters of the Peoples Front and consistent antagonists of the Fascist elements from beginning to end. Their reasoning is often superficial, and their evidence in support of the liberal government occasionally makes excellent justification for the Fancist But we must not be too critical of an interpretation made with scarealy any perspective. Gannon and Hepard have done enough to merit great appreciation in their wealth of facits, the majority of which are well substantiated with references...