Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough it was, thought Mrs. Irene Smith, Livingston, N. J., mother of seven, to be divorced for adultery. But when her onetime husband, a Milburn, N. J., policeman, refused to support her youngest child because he believed the divorce corespondent, one August Schildknecht, was its father, Mrs. Smith protested...
...most recent Italian elections, heralded as a great victory for Mussolini and the groups which support him are as a matter of fact rather difficult to interpret. Not only are no satisfactory data available with reference to the nominating process of those 'elected', but even less do we know about the circumstances of the election itself. True, the Times correspondent emphasized that there was no violence at the election; but it would be somewhat naive, to say the least, to assume that therefore the election was a fair one. Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each...
...other hand, it would be equally wrong to accept the claims of Antifascist agitators. When the concordat between Rome and the Vatican was concluded, for example, you could hear them explain that it was done partly in order to gain the support of the clergy for the forthcoming plebiscite, and a hint was thrown out that such support was rather needed. Now, however, it will be asserted that the people in Italy had no choice but to vote for the Fascist candidates. Emigres are as hard to please as an irate mother-in-law, and who will blame them...
...Without any hesitation," said Mr. Lloyd George solemnly, ''I will support any party advocating those principles...
...Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request that the ten most northerly states of Mexico be recognized as having seceded from the Mexican Union, and as constituting the Republica Mexicana de Obregon...