Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their own account the Italians had been captured on Dec. 14, near the Takkaze River, after an Italian advance column of 1,600 black Askaris had been ambushed in a mountain defile and radioed for tanks to support their line. Sixteen white Italians, in ten light tanks and two trucks, hustled to the rescue. Continued one of the prisoners...
...North, Dictator Mussolini's flying son Vittorio was vexed by a shell which knocked the machine gun support off his plane and exploded freakishly with little damage in the cockpit, after which he made a neat landing, unscathed...
...asking; even unto the vice-Presidency on the Republican ticket. If he is wrong he will learn how costly a mistake made in public office may be. However, for his honesty and straightforwardness at such a time he should receive the highest praise. Behind Hoffman should go the support of the people in America who felt that Condon field in fear because he knew more than he dared tell. Hoffman's duty is unmistakable. In the face of such universal uncertainty he has but one course;-to return Condon to the United States and air the case from...
Taxes and Taxes. "A tax, in the general understanding of the term, and as used in the Constitution, signifies an exaction for the support of the Government. The word has never been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another. We may concede that the latter sort of imposition is constitutional when imposed to effectuate regulation of a matter in which both groups are interested and in respect of which there is a power of legislative regulation. But manifestly no justification for it can be found unless as an integral part of such...
...aunt saw to it that, at 13, Marian was moved along into the adult choir. After her father's death, her mother took a job as cleaning woman in a department store. At 16 Marian took over the support of the family, sang at community affairs, made what she calls her formal debut in a concert at a Negro school in Atlanta. Her church friends helped finance her study, felt richly rewarded when, in 1925, she was chosen from 300 applicants to solo with the New York Philharmonic at a Stadium Concert...