Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Setting. The bill was drawn up in conference between the railroad unions and executives of some of the railways (TIME, Jan. 18, RAILWAYS). The unions indorsed it wholeheartedly. The railway executives' association gave it majority support. The President in his message to Congress had said that such a bill was in process of preparation and recommended favorable consideration. He later announced, however, that the bill was not to be considered an administration measure. It was passed by the House (TIME, March 15, CONGRESS) but in the Senate met a stubborn resistance. The minority of the railway executives...
Italy. The Italian Government relaxed its support of the lira, which promptly sank from 4c, where it has been "pegged" artificially for over a year...
...large number of letters have also been received from graduates urging general and whole-hearted support of the Fund. A few of these are printed below...
...Prohibition issue, however, is by no means so easily disposed of. By no means every Pennsylvanian is a Smedley Butler in his attitude toward the Volstead Act. Indeed it is Philadelphia which gave Representative Vare most of his support. The race was heralded beforehand as the first direct expression of popular opinion since the recent airing of views in Washington, and, three-cornered as it was, it seems inevitable that some of Mr. Vare's political prestige is recruited from the wet faction...
...simple and retiring soul who feels the lusts of the flesh coming over him is the central character. The title has no lack of support: at least seven times in the first act he is told that, you know, he is exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in an ingenious diversion of ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like...