Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the Representatives were meeting, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, Missouri Democrat, was busy enlisting the support of colleagues in both parties for a Missouri Plan of flood control. This plan provided for: a) five commissioners appointed by the President to govern flood control, navigation and conservation in the Mississippi Basin; b) appropriations of $100,000,000 per annum for ten years; c) a bond issue, such as built the Panama Canal and the Alaska Railway...
Michigan. Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit called for support from drinkers, bootleggers, "speakeasy" men. Candidate John C. Lodge, grand-uncle of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, called for no one's support. He made no speeches, signed no campaign literature, made no promises. His friends elected him Mayor of Detroit by a margin of 12,188 votes. Mayor-elect Lodge announced he would not sweep Mayor Smith's appointees out of office wholesale, would not countenance Prohibition "snooping...
...thing, this Harvard indifference is being worked to death. The team left Cambridge with no demonstration.... There were two graduates waiting for it when it arirved in New York. Rather a poor way to support even a losing team. The Harvard undergraduate body shows that it hasn't much spirit, and the editors of the Crimson show they have none." As nice a lift of straight forward reasoning as ever clinched a point for an expert on college spirit...
...Professor E. E. Sutherland of the University of Minnesota gave a definition: "Crime in modern society is the result of mobility which has broken traditions, multiplied contacts, introduced variety and conflict in culture, resulted in segregating people in different culture areas, where they support each other in crime...
...great expansion of its operations for fixation of nitrogen through a loan of $20,000,000 which it expects to get through one of the great American banking organizations.* "Is it right?" questioned Dr. Herty, "that the savings of our people should be directed by this institution to the support of a European monopoly which will seek the destruction of the American nitrogen fixation industry, now so rapidly developing in ... (this) country?" Dissenters. Chemical executives, thus far unnamed, meanwhile have been active in Washington. They accept Dr. Herty's major doctrine regarding Europe's vigorous industrial attitude...