Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press dispatch in yesterday morning's paper stated that a Constitutional Democratic party would be formed and that I would support the candidate of that party...
Down from Washington had gone Senator Bilbo to stump for Candidate Hugh White in a run-off primary for Mississippi's Democratic nomination for Governor, equivalent to election. In support of Candidate Paul Johnson, Mrs. Bilbo last week issued the following signed statement...
...vain attacks on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin in an effort to split the party on the India Constitution Bill (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931 et scq.). This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
...Hampshire sheep farm, which kept him well supplied with wool. During the War, he knitted perpetually, flooding a nephew at the front with products for distribution. Now he is owner of a Back Bay rooming house and uses the proceeds from his knitting to help support Mrs. Cann who has become an invalid. Last week, Knitter Cann, whose strokes are old-fashioned and who can do only a plain stitch, went to the Tercentenary Committee's knitting bee intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat...
...accounts of conditions in Scotland give the impression that she surrendered for love what had already been lost by politics. Far more convincing than his analysis of her emotional development is his picture of Mary entering Scotland when it had already been lost to Catholicism, groping wildly for support in the first years of her reign, marrying Darnley in a confused effort to satisfy Elizabeth, turning from Darnley when she found that the marriage meant only greater uncertainty and weakness. Marrying Bothwell, whether for political or amorous reasons, she allied herself with the strongest military leader of the kingdom, sank...