Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above are extracts from an editorial which appeared last week in Hearst newspapers. Hearst editors are more famed for capital letters than for judicial nicety, nevertheless their moral indignation in this case found reasonable support in the facts. For an entire decade (1920-30) the U. S. House of Representatives will not have been chosen according to the Constitution...
Just as no man would ask special praise for not stealing a chicken, so no Congress man asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt...
...timbrel each year for money irks a good manager. President Osborn declared that he was going to stop it. He needed $8,000,000 more endowment. If he did not get it, forthwith he would dismiss 35 employes, suspend others, set a stationary wage scale, cut off trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content for a further...
...crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play the whole truth of virtue outraged. His acting grew in strength, and no irony was lost in the trial for rape and the money-won acquittal...
...Heard Congressman George Holden Tinkham, of Massachusetts, demand investigation of alleged propaganda fund raised to support Kellogg Peace Treaty. Heard a 1930 War Department appropriation of $435,428,415 reported by the Military Affairs Committee. The appropriation provides for a U. S. army of 118,750 enlisted men and 12,000 officers...