Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than two-thirds of the delegates were over 60, for the Townsend Plan also appeals to young citizens with parents or other aged relatives to support, but to impartial eyes Secretary Clements' audience seemed as likely a collection of prospects as an undertaker could find outside Old Folks Home. Nonetheless their numbers and zeal served notice that the Townsend dream still lived, warned Congressmen to expect another wave of letters and petitions when they reconvene in January. The convention also introduced to the nation the man who, out of good Dr. Francis E. Townsend's misty imaginings...
...committee of prominent undergraduates are sponsoring another Peace Meeting this year a meeting so moderate and thoughtful in aim, so sound and constructive in plan, that every thinking member of the University should support...
...William E. Lampe of Philadelphia: When a man spends so much time bringing back the saloon, pays so little attention to divorce and domestic disorder in his own family and attends worship so seldom, has he a right to expect the wholehearted support of the church...
...Kamehameha School were thereafter packed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys had to be supplied with everything else to support life. None of the islands is more than 20 ft. above sealevel; none is forested; none has fresh water. Accordingly, camping equipment was landed as well as food supplies and drums of drinking water sufficient to last the colonists until the Itasca returned. And on the theory that the islands...
...rise of a Western Senator, Berzelius Windrip, commonly called "Buzz," a bubbling and buoyant individual whose personality and career closely resembled those of the late Huey Long. Windrip ruled unchallenged in his own State, built roads, enlarged the militia until it became his private army. When he got the support of Bishop Prang of Indiana, whose radio addresses reached millions. Windrip won the Democratic nomination for President in 1936. Thereupon Editor Doremus Jessup knew that history of an obnoxious sort was soon to be made...