Word: support
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a frontispiece caricaturing President Lowell doling out pennies to a scrubwoman, will be distributed to undergraduates and shopkeepers in Harvard Square this afternoon by the Socialist Club of the University. This is the initial step, according to the president of the club, in a well-defined campaign in support of old age pensions and unemployment insurance...
Looking very pained at such language in the Senate, Senator Reed Smoot who himself has been making a study of obscene foreign literature to support customs censorship (TIME, Jan. 6), arose and began: "Oh, Mr. President?...
...documents from the Russian secret archives which L'Humanité published in 1923, it appears that Tardieu received regular payments during the years of 1912 and 1913 from the secret fund of the Russian government, to support Russian policy in the columns of Le Temps, where he wrote the leading articles on foreign politics, and, as a true servant of the Tsar, attacked the French ambassador in Saint Petersburg...
...Schacht's arrival was immediately marked by a loud announcement that as Reichsbank head he would not support the establishment of a bank of International Settlements as planned. His chief reason : The Original Young Plan had been tampered with to the detriment of Germany. Then startlingly, after a series of meetings, the leading conferees, including the Germans, not only ignored Dr. Schacht's eruption as unofficial, but reached an agreement that any moratorium must be concluded before another is granted, that Germany would make payments on the fifteenth of each month as asked by the Allies...
...secured by her import and export duties, which were her principal source of income. Due to he constant change of administration and the resultant corruption and bribery little was realized from internal taxes and even a large percentage of the customs went to Presidential appointees or favorite generals whose support was needed. Little or nothing from the revenues went for productive purposes; they were all tied up to meet the loan payments. Thus, though the Government was able to meet the interest payments on its loans, it never had any money for administrative purposes. The Haitian Government was therefore constantly...