Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House was kept informed on the bill's progress but President Roosevelt was much too busy to heed Governor Eccles' plaintive pleas for moral support. All Mr. Eccles knew was that something drastic was happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers suspected skulduggery. When it was discovered that Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank had been in touch with Messrs. Glass and Townsend on the telephone, the Senators were loudly accused of selling out to Wall Street...
This was understood as an appeal to all Frenchmen of goodwill to support the drastic budget-balancing slashes for which the Chamber and Senate recently gave Premier Laval special powers (TIME, June 17). "I am not going to abuse them," he promised last week, "but I am going to use them! . . . France must, if she is to be strong and healthy, do two things: First, adjust her income to her expenditure; Second, count on herself first of all for assurance of her security...
...France's extreme right parties. During the preliminary riots before bloody Feb. 6, 1934, Prefect Chiappe was charged with allowing Royalists and Fascists to riot their heads off, smashing Communist and Socialist demonstrations ruthlessly. Socialists asked and got the head of Prefect Chiappe as the price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco. Still gambling on his popularity in Paris, Jean Chiappe turned the offer down...
...that during the World War American lace-workers marched side by side with the soldiers of France in France's dark hour of despair, and many made the supreme sacrifice. . . . When they succeeded in obtaining employment, they were required to contribute, through taxes, from their wages, toward the support of this Government, made necessary partly because France . . . not only defaulted but indeed refused to pay to this country the monies loaned her by America during her dark days...
...Island Sound, a Georgian stable embellished with scrollwork, numerous cottages and barns, a 20-car garage, a power plant. He collected paintings. He kept prize Guernsey cows. He contributed to the Republican Party. He became a director of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and a dozen other companies. He helped support the Field Museum in Chicago. His grandfather's estate, of which he is one of the trustees, spent $4,000,000 building low-cost apartments on Chicago's Blackhawk Street...