Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employ counsel to defend suits filed against his committee's activities by William Randolph Hearst and others (TIME, March 23), he wanted $10,000. Even more than the money, he wanted the moral support of the House and the White House. Therefore he put his request for an appropriation in the form of a joint resolution which would have to go through Congress and be signed by the President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable...
...their stand on the stump will be carefully questioned and clucidated. The autumn elections will have a real story to tell. Legislative berths are regarded as warm and comfortable ones by other people besides the present occupants, and applicants with sane ideas about education are going to win great support...
...Harvard begins its fourth century President Conant's hope to enlarge the university's service will have only the more support because his program of extension includes a plan of simplification. Dr. Conant believes that students in American colleges should have food less elaborate but more nourishing. "The faculties," he says, "should endeavor to reduce the number of courses given and in many cases to condense the material now presented. The tremendous subdivision of the fields of learning which has occurred in the past thirty-five years will certainly shock the academic historian a century from now. The increase...
...Official support will be given to the third National Anti-War Strike at Harvard on Wednesday, April 22, it was announced last night at the meeting of the Harvard Student Union...
...Support has been promised the strike by the Cambridge Teachers' Union and by the Radcliffe Student union...