Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been excellent advice that ailing Pat Harrison had phoned to the White House in mid-September-to lie low, avoid dramatic moves, cajole the South. For once more the South's balance of power had been clearly demonstrated. Lacking Southern support, Franklin Roosevelt was beaten on every Congressional front in July and August (TIME, August 14); with it he won clearly in the Senate last fortnight, in the House last week-where 95 Southern votes were cast for repeal of the arms embargo, two against...
...party, said he, returning to Joseph Stalin's old theme: that the U. S. is ripe for collapse and revolutionary restitution. Of his more recent declarations (that socialism is not now practicable for the capitalistic U. S.) Earl Browder made no mention last week. Said he, abandoning Communist support of Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policies...
Earlier in the day, 35 students at a Harvard Anti-War Committee peace rally in Sanders Theatre followed David Todd 2G in repeating the Oxford pledge, binding themselves "not to support the United States in any war that it may undertake." About 75 students attended the meeting...
...move to rally student opinion rather than to formally protest to the University, the John Reed Society will start a petition campaign to support its stand against the University for not having allowed Earl Browder to speak at Harvard, Robert Seidman '41, president of the Society, announced last night...
...believe that the student body will endorse our stand in the matter; what our plans will finally be depends upon the amount of support we get by circulating a petition to have Browder speak," the Executive Committee of the Society said...