Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have repeatedly stated that neither I nor the Republican Party want support on that basis...
Liberals began their campaign, last week, coincidentally with Conservatives. Said Mr. David Lloyd George, in Welsh, to an audience at Llangefni, Wales: "You have just heard me speak in support of my daughter Megan, who has been selected as the prospective Liberal candidate for Parliament from this division. . . . I am supporting her candidacy not because she is my daughter but because she is the choice of the party. . . . I cannot be responsible for anything she may say or do if elected...
Count Kuno von Westarp is certainly too shrewd to imagine that the 20,000,000 votes will ever be polled; but he needs an issue around which to rally supporters to his Party, and apparently he has decided that by backing the "Kaiser Referendum" he can win the support of the few thousand super-Monarchist revolutionaries who have heretofore kept up their own party organizations...
...Presbyterian and one who in this election is supporting Mr. Hoover, I wish publicly to protest against the letter of the Moderator of the General Assembly calling on all members of the Presbyterian Church to support a particular candidate (TIME, Oct. 1). This is a flagrant instance of an ecclesiastic's attempt to drag the Church into politics. As a citizen Dr. Walker is within his rights in giving his public support to any candidate he pleases. As a Christian minister he is justified in urging the maintenance of prohibition as in his judgment the wisest method of safeguarding...
...Members of the Presbyterian Church are presumed to possess minds and consciences of their own. Many of them will not agree with the Moderator as to the chief issues in this campaign. They may feel constrained to support Mr. Norman Thomas* as a protest against much that is sub-Christian in the platforms of both of the large parties. Or they may decide to vote for Governor Smith because they sincerely believe that prohibition does not really secure the maximum of temperance or for some other of his policies...