Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Votes for 1936. Obediently voting against political alliances or a third party the delegates last week granted Leader-lownsend and Clements full power to say which "friends" should get Townsend support and votes in 1936. The leaders also tightened their financial reins by getting a vote against sale of "unauthorized" literature, a vote to assess each Townsend Club of per month per member whether individual members pay up or not. Town-Clubs now number some 4,000 in 48 States, average 500 members apiece...
...Harvard Law School, Professor Thomas Reed Powell, topflight authority on Constitutional law, was asked whether he would take the Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution (TIME, Oct. 14). Replied he: "Certainly I'll support the Constitution. The Constitution has been supporting me for 20 years...
...Germany to make sure that Helene Mayer, German-Jewish Olympic fencing star in 1932, would be asked to join the German team next year. Even before the Normandie docked, Mr. Sherrill was handed a letter from the U. S. Committee on Fair Play in Sports, asking him to support the move to withdraw the U. S. from the 1936 Olympics. The blast that Sportsman Sherrill uttered in reply promptly turned the flame into a thoroughgoing conflagration. Said...
...freight train, enrolled in the class of 1937, worked his way by washing cars. As a freshman, he ran through the entire Iowa varsity six times in one afternoon of football practice. As a sophomore, he was the star of an Iowa team that sometimes gave him half-hearted support. Last week, speedy, swivel-hipped, elusive Oze Simmons snaked through Illinois for a 71-yd. run & touchdown in the second period. Captain Dick Crayne made two more in the last, kept Iowa undefeated...
...stand up for that ideology". The President of the A.A.U. agrees with the New York Times that "participation in the games under the Swastika implies the tacit approval of all that the Swastika symbolizes", and that "for Americans to participate in the Olympics means giving American moral and financial support to the Nazi regime which is opposed to all that Americans hold dearest...