Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangest pieces of mail which Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the U. S. Vice-President-Reject, has ever received, was a letter which he gleefully showed to colleagues last week. The letter warmly, sincerely, personally thanked Mr. Robinson for "the cordial support you gave me in the campaign." It was signed by Charles Curtis, the Vice-President-Elect. Senator Curtis laughed as hard as anyone. No one in the Senate needed to be told how it is that such slips occur when one answers each & every one of one's congratulaters after an election by warm, sincere, personal form-letters...
Twenty-four hours before election the announced position of the four major Austrian parties was that they would support the passage of a Constitutional amendment permitting President Hainisch to be elected for a third term. This was Chancellor Seipel's own program. Suddenly Monsignor Seipel scrapped his original program. He proposed not another four-year term but an unprecedented one-year term for President Hainisch. During this one year drastic Constitutional amendments would be drafted and passed, endowing the President with quasi-dictatorial powers and quadrupling his present paltry salary of about $100 weekly...
...Pulitzer had identified himself so aggressively with local affairs that he was elected to the State Legislature. There he attacked the leaders of a graft ring, shot one of them in the leg after an altercation, escaped trial through the support of some unexpected friends, and made himself a champion of honest government...
Acknowledge firm support of the Kellogg Peace Pact and of all future measures tending to reduce armaments without suggesting a "renunciation of war"; because, as someone shrewdly pointed out, there would remain "the possibility of a defensive...
...week closed with no signs of a rally. There were stories of a bankers' conference in the offices of J. P. Morgan-stories that the bankers might support the market to prevent a stock panic. It was thought that "bargain hunters" (shrewd traders who pick up stocks at low prices after a deflation) would start a buying movement that would rally the market. On the whole, the bear market was considered a local hurricane, not at all reflecting the condition of the nation's soundly prosperous industrial life...