Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unity. To make plain that the party stood united and that he would be no sulk-in-tent champion, Missouri's white-crested Senator James A. Reed followed Mr. Davis with a cry for "every Democrat in the United States" to support Nominee Smith "until the last ballot is counted on election night." True, this Reed speech preceded the convention's choice of a vice president. But after Nominee Robinson was chosen, Senator Reed's congratulations contained an honest ring...
...personal glory and proving the sincerity of his professed devotion to a great ideal: Nationalism or the Unification of China under a People's Government. That ideal in concrete form is at present the new Nationalist Government at Nanking. To it Marshal Feng sometime since pledged the voluntary support and subordination of himself and his immense, completely independent army. In the name of the Nationalist Government Peking and Tientsin were conquered...
...Chinese Republic was now becoming fictional as succeeding Presidents fell more and more under the dominance of War Lords such as Wu Pei-fu. But the Christian General had been all the while building up a personal army which is today unique in the ability of its troops to support themselves without looting-a common practice of other Chinese armies but punished by Marshal Feng with Death. Instead of an army of bandits, why not an army of artisans? The Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms...
...sons were faithful, and became in time the chief strength and support of the descendants of Moses. All the sons were united though they scattered to the ends of Europe for the first international banking concern. Probably they came from their magnificent palaces to see Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century...
Parlor and kitchen together, the financing of wars and the support of the bastard sons of kings, made the House of Rothschild master of a chaotic Europe for half a century...