Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America for Americans" is the fine new demand made to all patriotic Freshmen yesterday by the Veterans of Future Wars in a "manifesto" followed by a petition pledging support. Besides the retroactive bonus demand, the manifesto threw open the Home Fire Division (burning not shooting) of the V.F.W. to all mothers or future mothers of male children who, they naturally demand, must be sent to France immediately as partial compensation for the inevitable loss of their future husbands...
...rebels--a result the reactionary legislators could hardly have intended. A veritable War of Independence was fought with all of Boston either taking part or looking on. Broadsides of passion, eloquence, logic, ridicule were all fired at the law by the biggest of academic shots. But despite this unanimous support of the repeal bill, it is still in committee, and both the temper of the hearings and the composition of the House make its adoption unlikely...
...have bombed out of their shelters thousands of such men and women. Led by a few who from the first have realized the dangers implicit in the law, teachers in schools and colleges are mobilizing a belated but sturdy and almost unanimous resistance. And everywhere they have won the support of the students in their institutions and the more sophisticated groups in their communities. The middle class begins to scent trouble...
Before the vote was taken Norton E. Long, instructor in Government, spoke, telling of the position of the Catholic Church on the bill. Considerable doubt was held in this quarter because of the open support of Father I. J. Corrigan, S.J., of the Boston College Faculty...
...eight thousand men who contributed last year suggests the almost universal appreciation, by Harvard graduates, of the value of education in the social scheme, and the equally universal desire to improve and assist education at Harvard, no matter how hardly come by or how relatively small the token. Support of privately-endowed education must be more than material. It must have social and psychological props, and the thousands contributing illustrate the soundness of its foundation...