Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate substituted an amendment giving the President "discretionary control" of relief pay except on Federal building projects. The horse trade which effected this compromise was reported to have been made between the President and New York's Senator Wagner, who exacted in exchange the Administration's support for his Labor Relations Bill. Within a week observers expected that the Relief Bill would be on the President's desk and that the Congressional jam which has held up all important New Deal legislation for the past ten weeks would be definitely cracked...
...United Press asked William Randolph Hearst whom he would support for President in 1936. Answer: "Probably Mr. Roosevelt...
...Brainerd in his letter to the CRIMSON, which was published on March 21st, states that the Harvard Unity Club. The Young People's Religious Union, and The Second Church of Boston are among the groups supporting the anti-war strike on April 12th. This is not so. These organizations sent unofficial delegates to the Anti-War Conference last fall, and later took an unofficial part on the Continuations Committee. No support is being given to the strike of April 12th, because these organizations do not believe in the method which is being used. George R. Farnham '36. President, The Harvard...
...state legislature is foolish enough to pass such a bill any attempt to arouse public opinion against it will but entrench them more firmly in their stubborn support; especially if the propaganda employed is so ridiculous as to construe the bill as a direct attack against all laborers. Obviously the only intelligent course of action is to await the arrival of a test case, or better still, create a test case, and push it to the Supreme Court. The opposition of ignorant propaganda to ignorant propaganda will inevitably produce a stupid mess...
Though a preventive war with the support of England was unthinkable, action on the part of the other Powers might have meant chaos at home, rather than incur which threat he probably would have been quite willing to retreat to "previously prepared positions...