Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this scared the Radical Socialists, the Popular Front moderate wing, out of their wits. Threatened with the loss of their essential support or with domination by his unruly Communist allies in the next Chamber of Deputies, Leon Blum last week hastened to confer with lame-duck Premier Albert Sarraut...
...credit side, Guildmen pointed to their coherent national organization, to their contracts with the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, Publisher Julius David Stern's New York Post and Philadelphia Record, and the huge, tabloid New York Daily News, to the fact that Guild and labor support had kept alive a bitter strike of 25 Milwaukee Guildmen against the Hearstian News since last February. Outside the four founding cities, strong Guilds had grown in Boston, Philadelphia, northern California, St. Louis and Washington, D. C. Chicago was weak, but New York, with 1,551 active Guildmen, was the national tower of moral...
...which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure of 15 more years in Washington, free from all shift of political fortune. But Mississippians who sent Pat Harrison to support a Democratic President of 1918 may yet be told that a Demo-cratic President of 1936 cannot do without...
...apply for membership, but if sponsored by friends, was enticed to a meeting. There, with a revolver at his heart, he was permitted to declare his willingness to "be torn limb from limb and scattered to the carrion" if he betrayed a word of society secrets. After swearing to support God and the Constitution, to give his all in any "war" against Catholics, Jews, Negroes, aliens and Communists, he paid $7 for a robe, 10? monthly dues, bought himself a gun, became a member in good standing. State police variously estimated the Legion's membership in Michigan at from...
...Thomas, twice Socialist nominee for President. This faction two years ago, after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee, in possession of a big majority of the convention's delegates...