Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Communism has never won political support in the U. S. as it has in some European countries (see page 15). Its ablest figure, the late Charles Emil Ruthenberg was a longshoreman's son who worked in factories and newspaper offices. The new leader William Zebulon Foster, 47, was a wandering slum boy of Taunton, Mass., who obtained a haphazard education in public libraries. First he was a Socialist, but in 1919 that party "expelled" him for his part in the I. W. W. steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program...
...Perry W. Howard, Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi. Mr. Howard who is a Negro (light colored) also said: "The group I represent has unfortunate ly for years, and to a large extent, followed the political fortunes of Governor Smith in New York and it is essential that this support be brought-back to the Republican party, and not be permitted to extend into other states." The kind of extension Mr. Howard possibly had in mind was the Democrats' shrewd move last autumn in appointing Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro pugilist, to align votes in Chicago's black belt...
Soon afterward, however, supple Eleutherios Venizelos slewed his Liberals around to support, for the time being, General John Metaxas, who promptly became Prime Minister, although he and his Royalist supporters are the antithesis of Venizelist republicanism, and seek the restoration of banished King George II of Greece (son-in-law of Marie of Rumania...
...free intellectual inquiry of the past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking with Romanistic and esthetic mysticism should shed no very tasteful fruit. Since the student rarely feels the great sorrows and trials of the bitter depths vaguely referred to as life, the support of the church can seldom rise above the low level of sustaining organ recitals before examinations. And since the crown of youth is its searching self-reliance in the matters of conduct and God, any relinquishment of that independence in emotional self-indulgence because of keen sentience of beauty...
...apparently irrelevant fact stood like a prognosticating index finger. A month ago the Pennsylvania withdrew its long support from Leonor Fresnel Loree's fifth eastern railroad system and paid him 63 million dollars to drop the matter (TIME, May 7). For getting Mr. Loree out of the railroads' way, the Pennsylvania was to get passage along the southern shore of Lake Erie to Chicago...