Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giant P. The Conservatives now dominating His Majesty's "National Government" have made splendid and honest use of their opportunity to take over as their specialty and to champion before the World the particular brand of pacifism with a giant P plus zealous support of the League of Nations (hitherto the forte of the British Labor Party) which recently proved their pulling power with British voters by winning 11,000,000 ballots in a nationwide straw vote (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week the Labor Party, in convention at Brighton, were so carried away by their loathing of Fascism...
...support him behind the line he will have George Blackwood and George Ford and probably Johnny Adzigian. There is a slight chance that Freddy Moseley will start at left half, but the odds are very strongly in favor of Ziggy's having this position...
...employed by those groups in whose interest it was to have the bill passed in the first place. In working for the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill, or at least for the political defeat of those legislators responsible for its passage, the committee may count upon the full support of most reasonable citizens. The weapons used by the patriotic organizations in forcing through this supremely silly piece of legislation should be turned against them by their opponents with a fury they never dreamed existed. It is an unfortunate commentary upon American government that the advocates of such measure...
...Phillips Brooks House. His lecture will be accompanied by slides which will include all phases of life on the Labrador coast as well as activities of the Grenfell Mission. A collection will be taken up which will be given to the school and hospital at Cartwright for the support of which the Harvard Grenfell Association is doing its best to raise money...
...Teachers' Oath Act' stands, the Legislature seems to be making merely a nasty gesture suggestive of Hitler or Mussolini. Legislators who voted for it were flirting with violation of their own oaths to support the Constitution, but it is not clear that they have accomplished even that. Yours sincerely, James A. McLaughlin...