Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While this abnormal situation continued, there was prosperity, and when it ended, prosperity vanished with it. Now the California doctor wants us to go on a permanent "war" footing, to support an army of retired old people, and shower them with the luxuries of peace instead of war; and he claims that in so doing we shall bring back prosperity and keep it. Maybe he's wrong, but then again he may be right. Who knows? It's never been tried...
...what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor, where stanch Welsh neighbors can always be counted on to roar approval, Orator Lloyd George proposed to apply to Britain substantially the Roosevelt remedies (including a budget unbalanced by colossal public works) and appealed for support from all parties...
...Secret U. S. State Department archives re-leased last week make clear that Britain's Lloyd George and France's Clemenceau had the full support of the U. S. in their effort to hang the Kaiser, until President Wilson found that the U. S. Senate would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles which reads in part: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality...
After the Senate rebuffed the President, Secretary of State Lansing hastily cabled that "the United States will not at present support any demand for the extradition of the ex-Kaiser or participate in any way in his trial should it occur...
...social and economic injustices now prevailing, and to ensure to all classes and to all parts of the country a greater degree of equality in the distribution of the benefits of the capitalist system. Upon this plan you have made a beginning. . . . May God give you strength to support, by your unremitting labors, this great movement toward happier days...