Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local malletmen enter the game favorites after their spectacular win at New Haven last Saturday when Captain Skiddy von Stade saved the first Blue series match. Tonight he may again be called upon to lead a rally. Gay Dillingham and the veteran Warwick Stablor promises strong support for von Stado...
What is the role of Japan in the world of tomorrow? Can the nation which seems destined to rule an empire in the East be ignored by western statesmen? What of Spain? Will she ever regain her position as a power in Europe? And if so, where will her support be placed? What of America? What of the colossus of the West, the nation still thinking in terms of nineteenth century isolation, still shrinking from the cold, harsh realities of world politics...
Commenting upon criticisms that the lowest paid workers, the maids, after twenty years service may receive pensions amounting to as little as four dollars a month, University officials stated that most of these employees are married women whose earnings are not the sole support of their families...
...McCloskey raced across the room, shook his fist under Guffey's nose. . . . Red with rage, Dave Lawrence, who the night before took himself out of the race, jumped into the free-for-all. . . . 'Now I understand,' he bellowed, 'why I didn't get the support for my candidacy from persons who . . . should have been in my corner...
...excitement "a cook burned his finger and a pot of breakfast mush crashed to the floor." All spectators agreed that Senator Guffey stalked out of the room. When he reappeared after taking a walk along the Susquehanna, he announced that he had reconsidered and would give "wholehearted support" to the ticket after all. But later that day Miner Lewis flatly announced in Washington that, ticket or no ticket, he would support Miner Kennedy for Governor. Did this mean, newshawks asked, that C. I. O.'s half-million Pennsylvania voters would walk out on the Democratic ticket? Replied John...