Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week to Brule went blind Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. Senator Schall had said he could approve of neither. Hoover nor Smith for a farmer's reasons. After seeing the President, Senator Schall said he had never actually opposed Nominee Hoover; that he would now in fact support him, being convinced of his honesty and ability...
...announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...William Randolph Hearst, publisher extraordinary, retired politician, the Brooklyn, N. Y., Daily Eagle (Independent), popped these questions: "Whom will you support for President and what issues will determine the election...
...Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith, at least to "lay off" him, to forget Nominee Smith's bitter contempt for him and to bury the old quarrel. Except for a series of cartoons, showing Tammany as a little yegg in a tiger-striped sweater, Mr. Hearst subsequently published nothing very damaging to the Brown...
...personally have been an earnest temperance advocate for 40 years and I am only willing to support a substitute measure for Prohibition which promises better temperance than Prohibition...