Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such prominent business men as Carl Bolter, James F. Brine, George E. Cole, manager of the Cooperative Society, and Max Keezer are included in the list who petitioned the Senators and Representatives from the Cambridge districts to support the oath law repeal bill...
...Illinois Candidate Borah forced Candidate Knox to fight, for the Chicago publisher could not stay out of the primary (April 14) of his home State. Senator Borah had two advantages in Illinois: 1) He was born on a farm near Fairfield 70 years ago; 2) He had indirect support from the Chicago Tribune which cannot see the publisher of the rival Daily News in the White House. But Publisher Knox has virtually a complete slate of 57 would-be convention delegates in the field, whereas Senator Borah has only twelve. Illinois also conducts a separate statewide Presidential preference vote which...
Last week Premier Azaña ordered José jailed for prosecution on charges of inciting armed rebellion. The Phalanx was outlawed, all its clubhouses closed and many of its leaders locked up. The police, given this official support, went merrily into the streets and began cracking Rightist and Leftist skulls without fear or favor...
Cincinnati Germans who do much to support Cincinnati Music complained chiefly because Die Meistersinger had become The Master singers, had suffered, according to their lights, by the English translation. Similar controversies have simmered in every U. S. opera community. For those who believe that the texts should be comprehensible to all, there are as many who want their operas the way they were written. The advocates of anglicized opera maintain that theirs is the one solution for broadening opera's appeal in the U. S., point to the fact that in European opera houses performances are almost always given...
...year ago last week Congress instructed the Federal Communications Commission to find out all there was to find out about American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Among reasons cited in support of the Congressional resolution ordering the investigation was the fact that the Bell System had hitherto been entirely overlooked as a subject for a high-powered New Deal inquiry. That omission was in itself an extraordinary tribute to the company's management, for a more likely object for Congressional scrutiny could hardly be imagined...