Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemplating my supposed depravity, and especially do I hesitate to delete even this tiny morsel of drivel from the gurgling pacifism of the Millis book; but, I never made the statement. I never even heard of it until the author of the Road to War used it to support his delusion that the World War was caused by bad businessmen and bankers, and still more blood-thirsty preachers...
...mayors which made other subjects sound dull and tuneless. Attorney General Cummings talked about crime control and the mayors made a tour through J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation. Experts spoke to them on traffic safety, noise abatement, fire prevention. Senator Wagner urged them to support low-cost Government housing. One evening was given over to the problem of "busting the Gas Trust." But the conference really got back to business and excitement when it got back to the subject of relief and Government money...
...capitalist, onetime magazine publisher (Red Book, Blue Book, Green Book), founder and president of Chicago's Ravinia Opera Company; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Obliged by heavy losses to discontinue Ravinia's summer opera in 1931, Mr. Eckstein estimated he had spent $1,000,000 in its support...
...Hutton must have sat bolt upright when he heard the reaction to his suggestion. Angry editorials burgeoned. Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Committee thought Mr. Hutton should be investigated. Mr. Hutton's trim, dapper figure appeared in a Rollin Kirby cartoon, soliciting Big Business support to "gang" Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Colby Chester of General Foods hastily disclaimed his chairman's ideas as representing corporate policy. A market letter of Weingarten & Co. offered Stockbroker Hutton some sage advice: "Interests and forces opposed to the Administration can accomplish much more . . . in fighting out the issues...
...likely to be surprised at the number of close connections that Marx and Engels maintained with the U. S., to learn that some of Marx's most important works were first published in New York. Living in London, with a well-bred wife and four children to support. Marx's only certain income was the two or four pounds a week he received as foreign correspondent to the Tribune. But Dana paid only for what he published, threw many of Marx's contributions in the wastebasket, printed others as editorials for which he did not pay. Although...