Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult life in finance, as a partner in Lehman Bros. Politically he is not a misfit but an anomaly. Following two- such bright political lights as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt at Albany he is wholly out of place, yet thoroughly successful. He has the whole hearted support not only of Messrs. Smith and Roosevelt but of a vast section of the New York Press. He is not the public idol Al Smith was, for in public appear ance he is a conservative little man. Not handshaking, not backslapping, not silver-tongued oratory, not radical promises...
...Tuition charges, apart from endowment the only source of income, could not possibly alone support these institutions of learning, unless, on the one hand, educational standards were ruthlessly sacrificed and the methods of teaching were radically and disastrously modified (e .g. by discharging many of the teachers and employing a few lecturers to address huge classes; or, on the other hand the fees were greatly increased, which at present would, as a financial device defeat itself by greatly reducing attendance. Adequate scholarships would help solve the problem, but these rest almost invariably upon endowments or private gifts and wouId...
...bulletin: Donald Richberg, "Assistant President," had gone to the defense of Publisher Hearst, had asked the Labor Board to reopen the case. Again Chairman Biddle held court, heard what amounted to a rebuke to himself by Mr. Richberg and NRA Counsel Blackwell Smith on "respect, co-operation and support" of NRA Codes. Prime point: The order establishing the Labor Board said that it "may decline" to take jurisdiction if a code provides other means of settling a dispute. In the case of the Newspaper Code, a special Industrial Board was provided to handle such cases as that of Dean Jennings...
Idealistic New Yorkers called the plan a disgrace for a city which could well support two topnotch musical organizations. But, fact is, both the Philharmonic and the Metropolitan have been in peril of their lives, dependent on public donations which they cannot expect to be forever forthcoming. Many complained because the $500,000 raised last spring was for the Philharmonic and the Philharmonic alone. But the merger's promoters hastily promised that this money would be used only for the orchestra and its concerts...
...addition to lending vigorous support towards this measure, the Harvard chapter of the Student League will send a delegate to a National conference of the League at St. Louis on Wednesday, and it will also be represented at the International Youth Conference at Brussels on Saturday, December 29, and Sunday, December...