Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubtful Maryland. Democratic Senator Bruce, defending his seat against Republican Phillips Lee Goldsborough, exhorted his supporters also to support Nominee Smith. (Here, too, the gubernatorial situation was in the Brown Derby's favor. Governor Ritchie, wet, popular. Democrat, was campaigning for a third term...
...Hoover position on water power, which for Senator Norris is the paramount issue. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's most vigorous campaigners, was forced to admit, "I disagree with Mr! Hoover on the power question. If that were the only issue in this campaign. I could not support him." Senator Borah said the paramount issues were Prohibition and Farm Relief, of a different brand than Smith's. He did not "bolt." Neither did Senator Johnson, loud-spoken champion of a Federal water and power supply for Los Angeles...
...time. On the day before Yale sends an army into the field to debate the qualifications of the two major presidential candidates, treason is found at the very heart of the home garrison. Even the modest veiling with a dash is insufficient to conceal the glaring weakness of undergraduate support tendered the Yale men on the eve of battle. Those who know the real story behind the debaters appearances tonight, will have trouble in back the emotion sure to be evoked by this latest "Laugh Clown" drama. The home fires are burning vigorously enough but with the unwholesome green flame...
Tonight occurs the fourth of the concerts given by the Freshman Players, an organization to be welcomed at a time when classical music is deriving too little active undergraduate support. Although having its origin in the College employment office, it offers an unusually satisfactory mode of helping a few men over the financial obstacles of higher education. Certainly more attractive superficially than the usual student positions which involve the climbing of innumerable staircases or the washing of many dishes, the orchestra also offers training in an art which is valuable both financially and esthetically in after life...
...vigorously applauds the decision among hosts of undergraduates to devote only a compulsory minimum of time to their studies and lavish the remainder upon outside activities. He makes the plausible statement that the prepondering majority of college students have not the capacity to pursue bookish knowledge. Certainly there is support for this view, but there is also an increasing body of evidence that the development of such a capacity is not beyond a very large proportion of those who now prefer a life of stereotyped activity...