Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most vocal [against the tariff] would need amplifiers to make their whispers heard. Such states as Arizona, South Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi etc. do not pay enough toward the upkeep of the government to cover the costs of collection, and states like Pennsylvania, hamstrung as they are by adverse legislation, support these backward commonwealths and provide them with their good roads, post offices, river improvements and other federal aid, figuratively on a golden platter...
Hectic midnight was the hour of betrayal, if such it was. Earlier in the evening M. Daladier had set out to tell President Gaston Doumergue of his inability to form a cabinet of the "left." The Socialist party had just refused their support, and without them he considered the game was up. En route to the presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would...
...this new line M. Daladier worked furiously until midnight, then saw in earliest morning papers that M. Briand had told the famed Havas Agency he would support not a "moderate centre" cabinet but one of "republican union." In plain English this meant insisting that Radical Socialist Daladier seek support for his cabinet further to the right than his own party would stand for. Frenzied, he rushed to the telephone and rang M. Briand's number, rang it again and again, drew his own conclusions when he got no answer? such at least was his story. In a welter of rage...
...unanimously indorsed by the survey committee of Boston public schools, in which President Lowell represents his honor, the mayor of Boston. The passage of this "Act to establish a board of Commissioners of school buildings and a department of school buildings in the City of Boston" has received strong support from educators in the vicinity, but the opponents of the referendum predict a close contest...
Sample epigrams: "Jealousy and love are both instinctive emotions, but religion has decreed that jealousy is a virtuous emotion to which the community ought to lend support, while love is at best excusable...