Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of the U. S. formally abolished slavery. On July 28, 1868 they granted citizenship to all natives and naturalized persons, guaranteed due process of law for every citizen, disqualified for Federal office Confederate leaders who had broken their oath to support the Constitution. On March 30, 1870 they clinched the franchise for Negroes. These acts were the proclamations of Johnson's Secretary of State William Henry Seward and Grant's Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, three-fourths of the States having notified the Secretary in each instance that they had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments...
Smart, like other young New Dealers, but a far better politician than most, he had already proved himself useful in securing support for the Works Relief Bill. Last week the President called him to the White House to consult with Speaker Byrns on getting the Security Bill passed. If the Speaker could not lead the House, the President was willing to send a leader from the White House. Thoroughly bucked up, Speaker Byrns shortly spoke up to say that the Security Bill would pass...
...Finally, what conference could end without whelping another Conference? Place: Rome. Date: probably May 20. Subject: Austria. At Stresa it was found impossible for Britain to join Italy and France in an iron-clad guarantee to support Austria as a bulwark against Nazidom, but Il Duce demands that this be thrashed out, insists that His Britannic Majesty's Government make up their minds...
...could and did lay on the Council table a stinging memorandum back-dated "Paris, April 9." She had hoped Britain would be willing, as Italy was, to send this stinger to the League with the full weight of Stresa's Big Three. Instead, France, with only the moral support of expressed British and Italian indignation, had to attempt the swishing alone...
...Michigan State College of Agriculture, six pacifist leaders, including the pastor of the Unitarian Church of Ann Arbor, were tossed into the Cedar River. C. In Philadelphia, thanks to the support of the Board of Education and University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas Sovereign Gates, attendance at high school and college meetings reached 30,000, with more Quakers than Communists in evidence...