Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the late great Victor Herbert. Composer Romberg, usually teamed with Oscar Hammerstein II, has rarely received worthy support from his lyricist. Setting no record for originality, Lyricist Hammerstein begins the chief serenade of May Wine: Out of a smile that I found in your eye, I built a dream...
...took Expert Dodds four days to work out a plan. He was safely back in Miami before it was made public. In effect the Dodds Plan reversed the Electoral Tribunal by providing that party electors in each province should decide among themselves whether to support the party nominee or another. The Government, happy to be back where it was a month ago, accepted the plan, set Jan. 10 as Election Day. To the Menocalistas, who cared not a whit for the abstract justice of the Dodds Plan, it looked as if the Government was merely calling in another...
...General Motors director received from the company no salary or other remuneration. He is Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, K. B. E., of London. Sir Harry has means of support other than General Motors. He is Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., British counterpart of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
Maurois considers Kipling "the greatest writer of our time and one of the greatest of any time," but offers little evidence to support his view. Kipling's merit in Maurois' eyes is that he championed an heroic conception of life from the time, as a 21-year-old newspaper man in India, he published his first works, celebrating the stiff-upper-lip theory of the Englishman's duty to the Empire. Born only eight years after the Bengal Mutiny of 1857, Kipling lived in a period when English control of India was seriously threatened. Sent to England...
...declaration of the Electoral Council that such a move would be unconstitutional, they refused to fall back into line. Dr. Mendieta's resignation has allowed a compromise and his place will be filled by Dr. Barnet who, as Secretary of State is the logical choice and who has the support of the army chief, Fulgencio Batista...