Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support his contention that Massachusetts is slow to adopt beneficial social legislation, Watt cited its failure to pass a law prohibiting the employment of minors in hazardous occupations...
Eugene Octave Sykes belongs to one of the few aristocratic Mississippi families which, curiously, has always added its support to the "redneck" Bilbo following. When he was Mississippi's Governor in 1916, The Man Bilbo appointed Eugene Sykes a justice of the State Supreme Court, successfully supported him for election when his appointive term expired. Going into eclipse with his patron, Judge Sykes was rescued therefrom in 1927 by Mississippi's Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, who got him an appointment to the Federal Radio Commission. When the Radio Commission became the Communications Commission last June, Judge Sykes...
Unlike the radio program. The March of Time is not a promotion project for TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. Organized separately as The March of Time Inc., the new venture must win popular support and thereby carry its own financial weight, or it will be discontinued...
...Harvard is to continue in intercollegiate athletic competition, there can be no further curtailment, the athletic association head continues. As a remedy for the situation, Bingham intimates in his report that the University should contribute to the support of athletics...
...obstacle should be pointed out, however--a difficulty which may render the plan inoperative in these uncertain times. Any provision for graduate study presupposes the ability of each member of the group to support himself during the three years. It is certain that unless at least one or two scholarships are available, the group will be pitifully small in proportion to its potential value. If the pay in government service were such as to compare favorably with that in private enterprise, more men would doubtless be willing to sacrifice three year's salary for higher education and more specialized training...