Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the bad taste of the title is carried through the whole revue. "The Bunk" appears to merit some fate better than suppression. Its off-stage prototype is at vorst punished with a tolerens yawa. The citizens' jury which has the unofficial backing of the District Attorney and the support of the Actors' Equity Association might better have directed that the performance be denuded of suggestiveness. The present decree, as admitted by some of the censors themselves, smacks of that arbitrary bureaucracy which it is essential to avoid...
...Bruce and Senator Edge would like a national referendum on prohibition. (It is doubtful if any legal way could be found to bring about such a referendum.) An apparently unusual event occurred?Senator Joseph T. Robinson, the Democratic leader, indorsed this idea. The current explanation of Mr. Robinson's support of the proposal is that he regards himself as a presidential candidate for 1928, and wants, to dodge the prohibition issue by a referendum or its promise...
...Each government participating in the Disarmament Conference should prepare and present to it "definite and quantitative proposals, accompanied by reasons in support of these proposals based on the degree of security existing at the date when the conference meets...
Rumors circulated the thought that M. Briand would attempt to draw support from this unstable "majority of enemies" in an effort to gain at least temporary backing for his "save the franc" program. During this hectic week, Premier Briand found time to deny once more that he is engaged to be married?after 64 years of bachelorhood. He told reporters of three young Manhattan women who recently sent him a joint proposal?he to choose from their inclosed photographs which he preferred to wed. "I deemed their letter a most charming and delicate attention," said M. Briand, "yet I could...
Divorce. By the onetime Nancy Lane, daughter of the late Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; one Philip C. Kauffman, wealthy resident of Washington, D. C. She is rumored to have obtained $100 a month alimony and $150 a month for the support of her four-year-old son; to be employed as understudy to a Manhattan actress...