Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divulge their names or the names of his assistants. Included in the petition will be suggestions as to how the sports could be financed. The document is still in an incomplete form, but it is understood that it will suggest a general levy on all students for their support...
Once again the Freshmen are circulating a petition criticizing the policy of the University. The latest move is headed by William T. Glendenning '38, a member of the Freshman wrestling team, who hopes to get 1000 signatures protesting against the removal of official support of minor sports...
That the Lloyd George Deal has strongly appealed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald sufficiently appeared when his political henchman Baron Allen declared at Manchester: "It is surprising what a volume of popular support can be mobilized in favor of far reaching programs of this sort to cover, say, five years. It would be criminal if such an opportunity were cold-shouldered." In a nutshell the Lloyd George Deal is understood to be "public works and still more public works...
...hundreds of years British farmers have helped support the Church of England with tithes, no longer the Biblical tenth of produce but at a rate of less than $2 per acre per year. About ?3,000,000 annually is collected in tithes, two-thirds in "Queen Anne's Bounty," an organization set up in that good lady's reign (1702-14) to support rural clergy. Of the thousands of husbandmen who in the past four years have rebelled against tithe-paying (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933), none have been more stubborn than the men of Kent. Last February...
...first aftermath of the Peace Strike, several members of the Freshman Union Society will attempt to expunge from the minutes the Society's support of the Strike, it was learned from reliable sources last night...