Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, the country of his mother (his father a member of a Polish family able to trace its lineage back through many generations), John J. Lehmanowsky, after an extensive education in Poland journeyed to France and immediately became embroiled in the turbulent affairs of the country. He decided to support Napoleon and rapidly rose in his esteem, becoming one of his most trusted generals. Thrown into prison and sentenced to execution, following Napoleon's downfall, he made a miraculous escape to this country where he spent the remainder of his life as an author, lecturer, teacher and minister...
...President's most sympathetic critics, flatly announced: "I am going to vote for Governor Landon." His reason: There are no great issues between the two Parties. Both accept what the Supreme Court has left of the New Deal. But whereas President Roosevelt has unnecessarily alienated the support of Business and established a personal and factional government, Governor Landon, if elected, will be checked by a Democratic Senate, hence forced to constitute a Government of "national union" such as the parlous times demand...
...outlasted all the governments which existed when it was founded, and the social orders through which mankind has moved in three hundred years. It has had only the tradition of learning which its founders carried into the New World from the more ancient universities of Europe and the support of a community in New England which has been loyal to that tradition through all the vicisaitudes of many ages. Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald-Tribune...
...more. But unless the universities can keep clear of governmental interference and maintain the right to think and speak what they believe regardless of popular prejudice, training men to guide the people will become little more than a mockery. To preserve their vital liberties, universities depend on the support of the press. It is encouraging to find a leader of the newspaper industry awake to the need of guarding academic freedom and dedicating at least one section of the press to the accurate recording, "without fear or favor" of "all the news that's fit to print...
...named Stanley and Felix Piseck. Born in Peru, Ill. of Polish parents, they, still own a farm there, have lived for the past 16 years near Poland, N. Y. where they operate four farms. They led New York's milk strike of 1933 which failed to enlist solid support. This year their agitation for better milk prices has found much more sympathy. They claim 45,000 of the State's 1,000,000 dairy farmers as members of their New York Milk Producers Federation. They claim the support of 40,000 more...