Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function of the Legal Aid Society, as its name implies, is to provide clients unable to afford the services of lawyers with unpaid support. The members of the society are recognized by the courts and may plead their cases as though admitted...
...Manhattan from Paris last week Alexander Feodorvich Kerensky, to stop with Mr. and Mrs. Simpson at their Park Avenue residence. New York newspapers welcomed M. Kerensky in editorials of praise, of friendship. The Herald Tribune, usually synchronous with the Administration, stated that "Kerensky will have the help and support of all good Americans," Overnight this wiry, medium-sized man, with slightly bowed legs, a cropped head, and habitually narrow, squinting eyes, seemed to have become almost a national hero to the press...
Between June and November the All-Russian Congress of "People's Committees" or "Soviets," composed of delegates from all over Russia, transferred its support from Kerensky and his Menshevik War party to Lenin and his Bolshevik peace-and-land faction. Bolshevik propaganda in the army and navy caused many of the troops to obey Lenin rather than Kerensky...
...Glueck then explained that although criminological literature is full of statements as to the success and failure of former inmates of prisons, it is a matter of record that there is hardly one scientific study to support the estimates of success and failure...
Such a memorial should receive unanimous and enthusiastic support. Whatever its fate, however, the very pressing problem of the chapel must be met by the administration before the flight of time sullies Harvard's recognition of her dead and destroys the meaning of their sacrifice...