Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misconstrue President Lowell's recent article on Reconstruction and Prohibition. There is little in it to justify their attempts to use its as a polemic. It is judicial in tone and shows an ability to see two sides to the question. It admits the high moral purpose of the supporters of the 18th amendment, virtually endorsing Mr. Hoover's characterization of prohibition as a great experiment, noble in purpose and far reaching in results. As to the results, the article says, "Prohibition has no doubt done good. It has abolished the saloon; it has diminished the absence from the factory...
Round 4. Enter one branch of the U. S. Government, in the form of a man who is seldom news: Howard Sutherland, acting Alien Property Custodian. Said he: "I did as my judgment and conscience dictated." His deed was to support Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with proxies for 12,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana stock, which had been seized from Germans and Austrians during the World War and for which Mr. Sutherland is sole trustee...
Round 6. Securely tucked in many a vault, seldom touched and earning quietly, are large blocks of Standard Oil of Indiana stock?the property of families of early Standard Oil partners, Harkness, Pratt, Brewster, Payne, Flagler, Rogers, etc. On these, Mr. Rockefeller Jr. confidently counts for support. S. H. B. Payne, however, came out for Col. Stewart. The Payne Whitney and Pratt estates remained doubtful, last week. The University of Chicago (object of many Rockefeller benefactions) was expected to use its 30,000 shares for the-good-of-the-family...
Round 7. The mighty house of J. P. Morgan & Co. was authoritatively said to be advising clients to support Mr. Rockefeller Jr. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon insisted that the Mellon interests were neutral, when a Mellon-Stewart rumor persisted...
...accepted his post as Director of Athletics under trying circumstances. Harvard's record in intercollegiate sport was at a low ebb which made the alumni thoroughly dissatisfied with the conduct of the athletic program and disinclined to contribute to its support. More than this, the name of college sport itself was under a cloud of criticism from persons who thought it harmful to the true purposes of a university; at Harvard this criticism was especially strong. If Mr. Bingham has brought harmony and helpful understanding--and he certainly has--out of discord and confusion, his success...