Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government is something greater than an efficiently administered business corporation with a multitude of inactive shareholders. We support Governor Smith above all because of his power to reverse the present trend toward political apathy and arouse in the citizens of the United States an active, intelligent interest and participation in their Government...
Reason: money-it being notorious that the pay of a Cabinet Minister* has proved too meager to support the extravagant whims* of Lord Birkenhead, who was. before he took Cabinet rank, "the highest feed barrister in England...
...great was the commotion in the stock exchanges that few heard Tycoon Melchett's pronouncements on world affairs. As a Tory, he will support Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government in the coming British elections. Students of English politics recalled, however, that his Toryism is of curiously recent vintage. His was the influence and his the bank account which helped the Liberal Lloyd George to power and kept him there. As Sir Alfred Mond, he took the Ministry of Public Works in the first Lloyd George cabinet...
...first time in his long life, upon a public race track. He wore a light blue hat, dark blue coat, many-colored bow tie. He seemed happy to see the horses run and lather; but he placed no bets. He, a Welsh Baptist, has long found his strongest support among sections of the British public which frown upon horse racing. Yet he caused more excitement at the track than the horses themselves...
...inheritance of the LaFollette liberal vote of four years ago are borne out in the miniature of the University. The percentage of Democratic votes this year equals the combined Davis-LaFollette total of 1924; and, in spite of sufficient publicity, the Socialist candidate failed to approach the support accorded the extinct Third Party. Harvard's Republican vote is something of a fixture, and does not run alarmingly below its past strength...