Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing that of 21,600 clergymen, 70% were opposed to it. This result tended to confirm the verdict of many an oldtime politician that President Roosevelt, because he backed Repeal, tolerated two divorces in his family, goes fishing on Sunday and rarely mentions God in public, will lose considerable support from the Church next autumn...
...howling projectile on its way to the moon. Rockets, in fact, have passed one definite milestone: they have traveled at 700 m.p.h., faster than any other self-propelled mechanism. The moon idea grew out of the solid fact that, unlike airplanes, rockets do not need air either for support or propulsion since they are pushed along by self-generated recoil forces...
...Public Liability No. 1" Meanwhile in several London newsorgans deep rumblings in regard to Anthony Eden had begun. The Independent Conservative Evening News called him roundly "PUBLIC LIABILITY NO. 1" and remarked that His Majesty's Government are "bribing" the Government of Yugoslavia to "pretend" to support Sanctions by more than doubling the number of Yugoslav pigs permitted under British quota restrictions to be sold in the United Kingdom weekly...
...Hindenburg then intrusted Herr Von Papen with the government although that cabinet had the confidence of only 10% of the members of the Reichstag. "The price which Hindenburg had to pay for the Nazi's support of Von Papen's cabinet, was that the President would allow the reestablishment of the Brown Shirts troops. These troops had been dissolved by me during the Prussian election," said Bruening, clearing up the question as to why the German President had ever allowed the return of the Storm Troopers...
Although Hitler had promised 4 years support of the Von Papen ministry, a vote of censure was soon passed and the Reichstag dissolved. After 6 weeks Von Sleicher was dismissed and "in a fit of panic the President gave all power to Hitier...