Word: supporting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Messaggero. "Great Britain has promised a subsidy to the Emperor of Ethiopia to give the Ethiopian troops regular pay." In Rome the Dictator's press office told Italian reporters that "the natives of Ethiopia are so excited that now nothing can stop them. They think they have English support...
...sinecure he had held, Lord President of the Council, he bestowed on Scot MacDonald, who is thus assured of ?2,000 ($10,000) per year for the further loan of his prestige. To the nation Lord President of the Council MacDonald soon declared: "I hope the confidence and support given the National combination I headed will be renewed to the same combination under its new Prime Minister...
...Executive. This test the Deputies and Senators of France met by defying every Premier or would-be Premier who insisted on "full powers" during the crisis (TIME, June 3, 10). They settled down only when a peasant-born statesman of sturdy fibre asked them last week to support him as Premier by granting his Cabinet not "full powers" but carefully restricted extraordinary power for stated and specific purposes. Even this the Chamber voted with extreme reluctance, so ingrained is French dislike for any executive remotely dictatorial. There was not a single cheer, but thoughtful silence when M. Pierre Laval...
...continuing its support of the strikers or in its other off campus activities we suggest that the league do so not as an organization from the University, but as interested or sympathetic individuals...
Your other comments are, however, based upon the same intolerance and lack of perspective of which you accuse me. I can find no evidence to support your contention that Hearst's policies are provincial, irresponsible, or a perversion of democratic principles. Nor can I find assurance that we are "cursed with an antiquated economic system," and headed for faseiqui. On the contrary there are many fine minds in this country who hold, with Hearst, that high tariffs, naval supremacy, and freedom from foreign entanglements will assist the salvation of this country. You confuse, I am afraid, intolerance with freedom...