Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more support as soon as the first gold and the first llamas were en countered. Fifteen members of his party pushed on, encountered desperate hard ships, crossed the Cordillera in an audacious move, reached the Incas, hurried back to report on the wonders they had seen. But by the time Cabot could reach Europe...
...them to dependent pauperism. Since attempts to individualize and westernize Indians had obviously failed, Commissioner Collier proposed to revive the tribes' old life and culture, help them become selfsupporting, largely self-governing, thoroughly Indian communities. Result was the Reorganization Act, passed last year with President Roosevelt's support over the fierce opposition of ranchers and lumbermen who stood to lose valuable properties leased from Indians and who succeeded in barring Oklahoma Indians from the Act's provisions...
...would never sanction this country indulging in a blockade of that kind unless assured of the sympathetic support at least of those three great neutral countries. It would surely be the bitterest and cruelest irony of history if the League, in attempting to enforce peace in some localized area, only succeeded in setting fire to the world, starting a war which might run from Pole to Pole...
...Ross of the British Exchequer has been in China for some weeks. He is rumored to have made available ?10,000,000 as a "monetary re-organization loan" to Nanking, with Chinese currency to be linked with the pound sterling. This last week could not be confirmed, but British support was immediately obvious in an Order in Council legalizing Chinese paper notes in all transactions with British subjects. The Japanese Press in an outburst of anti-British rage freely aired the loan rumor. In any case 400,000,000 Chinese blamed 125,000,000 U. S. citizens for depriving them...
...always a willing patron for opera in Chicago. Deficit that first season was only $12,000. Last year it ran up to $78,000, discouraged everyone but irrepressible Paul Longone. Lawyer Haight announced then that times were unpropitious to undertake another season, withdrew a large part of the support and the name "Chicago Grand Opera." Forthwith Longone went out for new backers, won the help of Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, renamed the organization the Chicago City Opera...