Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Edge of New Jersey, seeking the President's support for a proposed survey of the Panama Canal and the often-discussed Nicaraguan canal route. Senator Edge assured President Coolidge that the capacity of the Panama Canal would be overtaxed within ten years...
...respecters of Chairman Butler's political sagacity looked at it this way: Suppose the Hooverites are downhearted now. Suppose Keynoter Fess prepares to extol the Coolidge virtues and record. Then, suppose Candidate Hoover is allowed more and more to inherit the Coolidge virtues, record and support. The effect upon Candidate Hoover might be to make him thoroughly conscious of his party obligations, his privilege. The effect upon his friends might be to fill them with a delight more keenly felt after anxiety. The effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right...
...officers charged with having complained, "in a manner subversive of discipline," against the alleged insulting conduct and awful oaths of their superior, peppery Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard (TIME, April 9). The two court-martialed officers are Captain Kenneth G. B. Dewar and Commander Henry M. Daniel. In support of their contentions Bandmaster Barnacle took the stand, braced himself and testified that he personally had been called a series of unprintable names by Rear Admiral Collard. The names, it appeared, all began with "b." "They were ugly names and dishonoring names," said Bandmaster Barnacle, "and I felt that after...
...Manhattan, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. O. P. organ of the East, said in an editorial: "The unique and impressive fact of the Hoover campaign is the fashion in which it has stirred spontaneous support in every section of the country...
...extraordinary degree Mr. Hoover is a national figure and a national candidate, drawing support from every section and every state...