Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although I was born abroad I have been an American citizen for many years and I am entitled to full support in my desperate attempts to further the cause of art and culture in the United States. I have been the first person in this country to give a University course on Living American...
...Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark horse in a five-man primary for the Underwood seat. Without any prominent support, he put on a wrinkled suit, climbed into a Model-T Ford, stumped the State, sleeping with any farmer who would put him up, speaking at every crossroads store, saying the right words to win Ku Klux Klan support. That year, a low in Alabama politics, Ku Kluxers helped...
...popped the question to Il Duce in Rome and been officially answered (TIME, July 1 & 8). Previously in Rome, Premier Laval had gone even farther, making with Premier Mussolini a pact in which France gave Italy a "free hand" against Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 14 & 21) in return for Italian support at the subsequent Stresa Conference on German rearmament. Thus last week Mr. Eden and Premier Laval knew they were asking Baron Aloisi to ask Premier Mussolini a repeat-question which could only infuriate the Dictator...
...that he was about to make vigorous protest on orders from Washington. Last week, as the World's crack revolutionists prepared to return to their homelands, the Moscow Congress made curious overtures. Its Keynote Spokesman, fiery George Dimitroff, implied in an adroit speech that the Communist Party may support Franklin Roosevelt in the next election because his defeat might enable forces now opposing U. S. Communism to give it a body blow...
Adowa-The plan was simple. The Italian army would advance like a hand, with the three parallel brigades of Dabormida, Albertone and Arimondi for fingers, with Ellena's brigade for wrist and support. The advance started at 9 p. m. Feb. 29, 1896. By 2:30 a. m. it was hopelessly confused. The Albertone brigade lost its way and in a narrow gorge cut across that of General Arimondi. Troops were tied up for hours. The support could not advance. Trusting in a faulty map General Albertone went too far ahead, engaged the Ethiopians alone. By the time...