Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnecessary to analyze the failure of the film--it's just flat. Miss Del Rio is highly decorative but will never score a success in a film which offers her no support--she can't act and she needs help from somebody who can. Pat O'Brien is not this somebody...
...back as the Crimean and Japanese Wars the government had lost prestige at home and abroad, but demands for reform were met with more systematic repression, until by 1917 the Tsar could scarcely find support outside the ranks of the nobility. The livest sections of Author Chamberlin's history are to be found in his descriptions of the collapse of the Romanov autocracy, "one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents...
...Reds fought Whites on a great fluctuating battle-line that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea, while famine and typhus were triumphing behind the lines. Unpopular though the Bolsheviks undoubtedly were in many sections, they could always count on more support among the common people than the Whites, who were everywhere identified with a return of the monarchy. "The alternative to Bolshevism, had it failed to survive the ordeal of civil war, would not have been ... a Constituent Assembly, elected according to the most modern rules of equal suffrage and proportional...
...need to be a prophet to assert that if these certificates, due in 1945, are paid in full today, every candidate for election to the Senate or to the House of Representatives will in the near future be called upon in the name of patriotism to support general pension legislation for all veterans, regardless of need...
...rescue at this point went paunchy Edouard Herriot, onetime Premier, and leader of the Radical Socialists. He promised the Goverment the full support of his party, keystone of the Flandin government. Since Premier Flandin was still too sick to face the Chamber himself, Finance Minister Germain-Martin was delegated to speak for him this week, with the following proposals...