Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will readily understand that under the conditions, when we must go to our friends and the public for financial support in order to rebuild Main Hall; it is a serious matter to us to give out the impression that our loss is entirely covered by insurance. May I ask, therefore, that you kindly correct this error in your next issue? If you will oblige us by granting this request and place your correction in a prominent position in your magazine so that it will be noticed and read by most of your readers we shall greatly appreciate...
Liberal M.P.'s mostly seemed content. But the chief Liberal peers, headed by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, announced next day that they had formed "the Liberal Council," really a new party with a separate headquarters and pledged to support the policies of Lord Oxford and Asquith who resigned (TIME, Oct. 25) as Leader of the Liberal party on account of disagreements with Lloyd George...
Scottish singer: "From West Virginia I wrote in support of Sunday observance in England: 'I am against Sunday theatre shows and have told my fellow artists if we fail to uphold our religion and our Sunday, men will scorn us, women will weep for us and children will be taught to hate the name of the theatre, and the curses of generations to come will be forever at the stage door. Men who disregard God's word and God's work can never hope to be respected. When for the first time I came to America I had four Sunday...
...Experience has taught us," he says, "that we have always room for one more interest to support, be it Rifle Club or Athletic Association. If a shingle be prepared, with a seal bearing the device of a Crimson Flag floating from the North Pole, we have no fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case...
William J. Bingham, director of athletics at Harvard, had nothing to say, and Major F. W. Moore, Treasurer of the Athletic Association was silent. No Harvard men gave any support to Hubbard's charges. But the judges and referees who officiated at the games were soon heard from. W. R. Okeson of Lehigh, referee and field judge, testifies that the games "were just good, clean contests between a lot of fine, decent boys coached by gentlemen sportsmen." W. G. Crowell, umpire and referee, described them in almost exactly the same language and said that violations of the rules were...