Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon overlooks the fact that "Everyman" is a woman, in the poignancy and finish of Miss Wycherly's acting. Unfortunately the acting of her support is not much more than adequate and at times the diction is not clear...
...subject for the international debate between Harvard and a team composed of speakers from three English universities has been changed to, "Resolved, That the only effective attitude towards war is an uncompromising pacifism," A. F. Reel, President of the Debating Council, announced last night. Harvard is to support the affirmative side of the question. It was also announced that the debate will be given in Symphony Hall on October...
...unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson in his loud "100% American" campaign last year, and against Congressman Richard Yates...
Since the death of Lenin in 1924, Leon Trotzky has been pushed more and more into the background. A sick man, he was indefatiguable in support of an active Bolshevising policy designed to please the younger rank and file of the Communist Party. Old-timers like Josef Stalin and Gregory Zinoviev, remembering that Trotzky joined the party only in 1917, began to attack him as a "upstart," and after Lenin's death it was not long before he was ousted from the Commissariat of War and reduced to political impotence by his powerful enemies. Even the Communist Party disavowed...
...question to be debated on October 28 by Harvard and a team compos of representatives of three English universities is: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life." The question of which Harvard is to support the affirmative, was chosen last night at an open meeting of the Debating Council in Harvard 6 from a list of six subjects suggested by the English team...