Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaskans could be persuaded to eat the soggy Alaskan potato. What with the hardships of clearing the land, the short summer season, the extremely cold winters, the plague of mosquitoes and other insects, Mr. Christensen considers the colonists' prospects so glum that the Government will be obliged to support them and eventually return them to the States...
...tycoons had to be placated. Council Chairman Henry Plimpton Kendall called at the White House to explain that his fellow tycoons felt that: 1) their advice did not appear to be very much needed and they feared they were being used as political window-dressing; 2) by contrasting their support with the Chamber of Commerce's criticism, the President had given the impression that they were currying favor at the White House; 3) their opinions on the New Deal had not been properly explained, since, of several reports they had submitted, only one (approving continuation...
...Bill would pass. Too many Senators were for it, too many Senators needed veteran support for re-election...
...proposition . . . with an entirely separate subject [greenbacks]." The inflationists took him at his word. Elmer Thomas, Huey Long and friends who had voted for the Vinson Bill a few minutes before promptly plopped against it. The Patman Bill won, 52-10-35, because an unpremeditated combination swung to its support. To the inflationists' assistance sprang ten Administration stalwarts headed by Senators Robinson and Harrison-whose object was to pass a Bonus Bill against which a veto could be made to stick...
There are some students of human character who support the theory that a man's true personality is revealed only under the influence of liquor. Be the student gifted with superior powers of deduction, however, he may draw interesting conclusions from the actions of men under great stress, as, for instance, in oral examinations...