Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intimated that probably more than half the Austrians, although admitting no faith can be placed in a plebiscite sponsored by either Hitler or Schuschnigg, welcome Nazi domination. In commenting at the close of the speech, Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, contended that Nazi support has dwindled from a possible majority two years ago to about 40 per cent today...
...summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans, trying to get 100 of them to pledge $50 annually for the support of a magazine of modern verse. Charles Deering, Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles & Rufus Dawes came in; Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck stayed out. By June, 1912, she had more than 100 signatures on her five-year pledges, an income of more than $5,200 a year for her magazine...
Representation on the general committee will be in proportion to the size and importance of any group which agrees to lend its support, it was announced. The executive council will be made up of five men on whose shoulders the management of the affair will fall...
Because the Student Union cannot publicly oppose the peace platform of the Vassar convention, it will hold a meeting on Wednesday to determine which parts it will support and which it will ignore...
...become the most neglected of the seven majors. The Athletic Association has forgotten that baseball is the national sport. Restoration of the baseball Junior Varsity team and the reorganization of fall practice would probably help. Indeed they are necessities if baseball is to gain back its former student support. As in hockey, however, the primary need is the recognition of a year-round coaching system for the future...