Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miners voted to "go forward with Roosevelt, fighting under his banner for re-election." As "evidence of our sincerity of purpose," they authorized the executive board to dip into the general war chest "in support of this program...
...young man he followed my banner and as an old man I am going to follow his." "Stirring!" cried Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir. "An important contribution to American history!" exclaimed Ogden Mills. "HE BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!" screamed the Hearst Press, Governor Landon's chief journalistic support to date. Some weeks ago imaginative observers began suggesting that the Kansas Governor's self-chosen appellation of Alf M. Landon might prove as distasteful to fastidious voters in 1936 as J. Cal Coolidge and Herb Hoover would have been in 1924 and 1928 (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week Aspirant...
...political effect of Republican enthusiasm over Governor Landon was to cast a shadow over another Midwesterner also entirely available for the Republican nomination. Still pursuing an unspectacular program, Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News was scurrying around through the midlands rallying small groups to his support. Concentrating last week on Ohio, he joyfully told diners at the 33rd annual McKinley Day banquet of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland that a "cataclysmic division" was rending the Democracy which "will be fatal to the Democratic success in November...
...second weeks poll asks one question: "If you would vote Republican today, check the candidate you would like to support: Arthur Vandenberg, William E. Borah, Alfred M. Landon, Herbert C. Hoover, Frank Knox, L. J. Dickinson, or other choice". Answers to this question will be published on Friday, February...
Appropriations totalling $450 were also voted by the council for the support of local charitable institutions. Though $200 were voted to the 1936 Boston Community Fund, $100 to both the Foreign Students Commission and the Cambridge Boy Scouts? and $50 to the Cambridge Y. M. C. A.; the Council has been unable to lend its accustomed support to several Cambridge charities including the Family Welfare, the Salvation Army, and the Industrial Aid Society as student pledges to the council have not as yet been sufficiently fulfilled. The council budget demands $2500 be pledged and paid by students, yet less than...