Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm Billion. Relief is largely city men's matter, farm bills are won by country men. When Senator Bankhead of Alabama explained this to his emotional niece last week, he was courting support from city men in the House for the $383,000,000 increases which the Senate wrote into the 1940 farm bill (TIME, May 22) and which last week were threshed by House-Senate conferees. Besides Actress Bankhead, another lobbyist for Relief who last week journeyed to Washington from Manhattan was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Having served seven terms in Congress himself, he knew just what...
...Townsend's next strategy is to send oratorical squads called "trail blazers," ten men to a squad, into the districts of 53 Representatives who accepted his movement's support in the last election, then deserted at the showdown. This activity will be concentrated in the Great Lakes States. ("Why, 75% of the Congressmen west of the Mississippi are for us anyhow!") By election time next year, if he has campaign funds enough, the Doctor expects to have so spread the fear of oldsters that the next Plan vote in Congress will be different. For his radio fund...
...Despite the personal support (by telegram and telephone) of Franklin Roosevelt, Jim Farley, Harold Ickes, rejected a proposal to develop and distribute public power from mighty Shasta Dam in the Central Valley...
...silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply that they had talked. When the German Foreign Office mouthpiece, the Deutsche Diplo-matische Politische Korrespondenz, announced on the heels of the meeting that the Axis would support the Arabs in eliminating British and French influence in the Near East, it was doubly news. For Britain it was alarming...
...hunter and a friend." For the Government's present policies he now wanted nothing so much as "a united Party, a united Nation and a united Empire." He even did a little appeasing himself. "Not a single element representative of the British nation," said he, "would support for a moment designs against the peace and safety of the Reich and its legitimate prospects of growth and expansion...