Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give the affair a final news fillip, Joseph Edward Sheedy, executive vice president of the Chapman company, announced that the Leviathan and later the ten other U. S. Lines vessels purchased from the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 18), would sell liquor outside the 12-mile limit. To support his action, Mr. Sheedy advanced the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Cunard v. Mellon, 1923, in which it was decided that the 18th Amendment applied only to the territorial waters of the U. S. for domestic as well as foreign ships. It is under this decision that foreign ships...
...visit when uneasy. Institute examiners send the diseased to their family urologists or, if poor, to Dr. Schmidt's Social Hygiene League where fees are low and where invalids can get expert treatment from him, Dr. Rachel Yarros (Hull House) and others. The League gets $12,000 yearly support from the Institute...
...recent issue of the CRIMSON carried on the front page this heading: Pound Defends Case System. These expressions therein quoted are hardly strong enough to support the connotations of the term "defense". The case is more serious than that. They imply an unawareness of the need for a defense...
Editor's Note: The CRIMSON has never rent its support to the flag-raising and hullabaloo of football, or sport in general. But that the concise pertinent facts should be denied to the public through faltering officials engaged in Harvard publicity, or more judiciously, Harvard information, is quite another matter...
...fortnight ago he was advancing with 150,000 Nationalist troops against a rebel army of 100,000 strongly entrenched. In the enemy camp it was believed that President Chiang could not count on the support of Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China...