Word: support
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference was almost disrupted when Dry Governors attempted to overturn its do-nothing tradition and have resolutions adopted calling for more law enforcement, more support of President Hoover. South Carolina's Gov. John Gardiner Richards offered such a resolution. So did Virginia's Governor Byrd and North Carolina's Governor Gardner. What the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina in private was not recorded but their public attitudes emphatically tended toward lengthening the historic interval between libations...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, South, leading the procession back into the president's office. Also recognized were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing law for Washington, where baseball, cinema, sports, now enliven the Sabbath. "Thank you for calling," said the President as the delegation marched out again. In the lobby a newsgatherer asked Mr. Bowlby about the "blue law." He replied: "Not blue, but red-white-and-blue. . . ." Chagrined...
James Carruthers Masson of Rochester, Minn. (Mayo Clinic) said: "If it were possible to ascertain the number of cases of cancer throughout the country, the number of successful operations and the number of deaths prevented, the evidence most conclusively would support the conviction that the control of cancer is being realized to an increasing extent...
...support the President and the Constitution, to strengthen public health and morals and to advance my own well-being and the well-being of others I pledge myself to abstain from all alcoholic liquor as a beverage and to give my utmost endeavor for the enforcement and complete success of Prohibition...
Last week the American Federation of Labor came to Equity's support, saying: "Your cause is our cause . . . your struggle is our struggle." Equity opponents scorned this as bombastic "moral support." But Equity adherents foresaw that cinemas made by anti-Equity producers might be boycotted by A. F. of L. members and families. Hollywood technicians of all sorts are 'being unionized to help the Equity cause...