Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sternly denounced by President Calvin Coolidge and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and is now entirely defunct. (TIME, Oct. 29). But the military purpose of the notes remains. Upon it last week interest focused. Revealed was the price exacted by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before he would consent to support against U. S. opposition the naval projects of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The French price, high, was that the British Empire should abandon its traditional policy of opposing the creation of huge conscript reservist armies in peace time by France and her allies: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania...
...Italy and other European countries 5,000,000. The Kellogg treaty, under these conditions, is not worth Lord Cushendun's railway fare to Paris to sign it. A clash is inevitable sooner or later if these gigantic armies are maintained, and the Anglo-French compact binds us to support France in its contention that not only these armies shall not be cut down but shall not even be discussed...
...Garvin to undertake the editorship of the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the American proprietors stipulated that all articles on Eastern political questions should be written by Americans. . Such an instruction as the proprietors of the Encyclopedia are reported to have issued can only be directed to securing support for some policy or other, unless, of course, truth has become an American monopoly, like gold...
...lieutenant of Sandino." The latter is of course General Augusto Calderon Sandino, who has raised the standard of revolt against U. S. occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...
...been postponed. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky complained of a heart attack. Violinist Paul Kochanski, who was to have been soloist, complained he was not paid according to contract. Rumor had it that Mrs. Clarence Chew Burger, the Symphony's chief underwriter and conductor's friend, had withdrawn her support...