Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol Hill, two deans of the Senate, Lewis of Illinois and Borah of Idaho, arose to support this view. They were joined by rowdy Bob Reynolds of North Carolina, who exclaimed: "We should wash behind our ears before telling other nations of the world to take a bath...
...former electrical engineer who turned auto worker in 1923, Roland Thomas came up out of Chrysler plants where he organized one of U. A. W.'s original locals. His personal popularity will be an asset in the struggle between the factions for rank & file support. But the real bosses of C. I. O.'s union continue to be Messrs. Lewis, Murray & Hillman...
Moreover, isolationist senators who picture economic support of France-symbolized by presidential approval of the sale of some 600 airplanes--- as leading the American people down the road to war, ignore America's stake in the peaceful resolution of European difficulty. Realistically speaking, it is futile to talk of isolation; in order to remain neutral in the event of a major European war it would be necessary, according to a survey made some time ago by the National Economic and Social Planning Organization, to limit all trade to peace-time levels and abandon American shipping except for narrowly defined neutral...
...which had occurred when the petition was framed, a far more practical attitude would oppose the mandatory provisions of the neutrality act. This miscalled "Peace Act of 1937" can really promote peace only when it makes possible discrimination against an aggressor; so long as it continues to deny American support to the forces making for world order-and thus, by default, actually improves the position of those tending toward disorder-it will continue to endanger America's chances of living at peace. Instead of petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic, it will be well for Harvard...
Clinging to this unseen, vertical barrier, they might have been little animals-silver mosquitoes on a screen, countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...