Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Bar Association and a conspicuous member of Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long has the Chief Justice been troubled by the decline of criminal justice. Having...
...South. Col. Horace Mann, undercover Hooverizer in the South, was allowed to withdraw last fortnight from further political operations when he failed to win the support of the Republican National Committee for his "lily white" movement (TIME, Feb. 18). He went out the same mystery man he had come in. The appointments of Messrs. Jahncke and Hurley to the sub-Cabinet were designed to relieve the South's disappointment at not being represented in the Cabinet. Mr. Jahncke, in particular, was a "lily white" appointment, as he had striven manfully against the rule of Walter Cohen, dictator of Louisiana...
Southern interest was further excited by reports that President Hoover was going to appoint, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Democrat who held that post under President Wilson-Cato Sells of Texas. Mr. Sells now represents that considerable body of Democrats who deserted their party last year to support Herbert Hoover...
Question: "Would you support any party advocating a plan the same as yours?" At this vital, leading question the humorous little Welshman instantly grew grave. His answer-and he chose to answe-would show where Little David stood between the two Goliaths...
...scheduled musical comedy is the result of student authorship, combined with the fact that it is to be directed within the club, takes the performance out of the class of an amateur company going through the routine mechanics of the professional stage. Further, the absence of semi-professional support in the cast forces the show to stand on its own feet and to make its appeal on its merits as a purely undergraduate endeavor...