Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granted that the average college student is lamentably ignorant of political problems in their detailed aspect, but most certainly he has heard of them if he reads only the newspapers. There are plenty of persons who know far too much about their immediate difficulties and are busily enlisting the support of their neighbors for various plans to end poverty, sedition, war, or profits. From Ogden Mills to Earl Bowder the contemporary scene is peppered with eloquent men on soap boxes. It might seem that a certain intellectual perspective and depth of thought rather than an opinionated familiarity with the facts...
...went back to Denmark last summer, and in spite of the many changes there are since I last saw it, I would have liked to stay there. But then sometimes I feel pretty well off here at Harvard, even though it is hard to support a wife and family of five children. I make a few singles on the side each year to carry me over...
Massachusetts. Onetime Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston with the enthusiastic if somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...
Thousands of Frenchmen sat down then and there, wrote to their Deputies and Senators, demanded support for M. Doumergue. His prestige was at its zenith?but the politicians in his Cabinet remained politicians. When he asked their unanimous support last week they agreed 11-to-8 that the Cabinet should "submit" his demands to Chamber and Senate. Ominously the potent bloc of six Radical Socialist Cabinet Ministers under paunchy Edouard Herriot served notice that they retain "liberty of action" to oppose their own Premier in debate if they choose...
Terms of the Knoxville deal could be readily extended. Certainly Bond & Share had no desire to have the value of its Knoxville properties extinguished by lopsided municipal competition. But the 13 coal and ice companies, with the moral support of many a thoughtful Tennessee Valley businessman, were determined to drag Mr. Lilienthal, dead flower in hand, before a high court...