Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Thomas, apathetic, bespectacled and 27, said she was born in Elizabeth, N. J., left school at 17, did factory and house work for six years, then married and had two children. When her husband died three years ago she went on New York streets to support her children. She earned, she said, $100 to $150 per week. After she went in "houses," however, the various deductions left her only $75 to $125 per week. "Which did you prefer," asked an attorney, "the streets or the houses...
...with its gratuitous sneers at democracy was possibly the stupidest move of that young man's none too thoughtful career. Hardly was it off the wires than the British and French Ambassadors came rushing round with angry protests. Kurt von Schuschnigg acted quickly, knowing that he had the support of the Catholic Church and the regular army to back him against Heimwehr and Nazi alike...
...will be in this apparent majority about 50 Radical Socialists, headed by Edouard Herriot, who cannot stomach the Popular Front's liberal program. Last week Leon Blum gave his best efforts to flirting with these all-important 50 votes. He had already got the Communists' promise to support, but not to join, his Government. The Radical Socialist machine had agreed to join the Government. There was still paunchy, pipe-smoking M. Herriot to be reckoned with...
Died. Lennington ("Len") Small, 73, twice Governor of Illinois; after a bladder operation; in Kankakee, Ill. During his first (1921-25) term he was tried for pocketing the interest accruing to surplus State money, was sensationally acquitted and reelected for another term (1925-29) with the loyal support of the State's countryfolk who were grateful for Small's hard roads program. In Illinois' last primary he once more sought the gubernatorial nomination, was defeated by Lawyer Charles Wayland Brooks (TIME, April...
...University cannot allow such a heaven sent opportunity to slip. What with the on-coming Tercentenary Celebration and the concurrent interest in the college, certainly it is up to Harvard to do right by her senior class. In return for support and interest for four years, the graduating classes from now on should be advertised quickly and effectively by a yearly senior poll, as at Princeton. On a percentage basis, and given a few years, the college might even surpass the sales records hung up by the Ford...