Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means all former workers. Their sympathies are not always completely with the laboring class. But the British Labor Party is pledged to secure the nationalization of the British mining industry. Former Laborite Premier Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the Labor Party, has moreover begun to attract the support of Mr. Lloyd George's remaining "corporal's guard" of Liberals. The present government is definitely Conservative, definitely "Capitalistic." In a word, the economic crisis of last week, was inextricably bound up with the political struggle between Laborites and Conservatives?the two predominant factions in the House of Commons...
...France the national theatre (Comedie Francaise) is so intimately connected with the government that a Premier might well be overthrown upon the issue of his Cabinet's dramatic policy. Last week the Chamber gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 350 to 152, in support of the withdrawal from the Comedie's repertoire of La Carcasse, a new play which has been widely denounced as "insulting to the soldiers of France." The plot featured adultery by a French general's wife, embezzlement by his soldier...
...cumulative decision on membership. Heretofore a Jewess or a Unitarian, "belonging" to the Y. W. C. A., lodging at its hostels, using its gymnasium and recreational facilities, could consider herself only a paying guest. She had no voting rights in the national organization which her fees helped support. Henceforth she will have such rights by majority vote,* of the 2,500 convention delegates...
...Committee was created by the Student Council early in March with E. B. Jackson '28 as chairman and W. N. Bumps '28, sub-chairman. The purpose of the Committee is to establish a liaison between Harvard and the various schools from which the College draws its support...
...Worcester also said that he was not in favor of complete abstinence but that he thought a law which so obviously benefitted the great mass of the people should be rigorously observed. In support of his statement that the Prohibition Law was a distinctly helpful factor in American life Dr. Worcester said...