Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great, for the assertion is not wide of the mark. One of the phenomena of the Coolidge regime is that its leader has won little affection from either politicians or newspapermen in Washington, yet receives what is known as a "good press" and no little political support. The explanation seems to be that, although the President has done little to win the good graces of pressmen or politicians, both recognize his strength in the country at large...
...Senator came to Mr. Underwood's support either in exposition of the game of draw poker or with a good word for cloture. So far as the present Congress is concerned, the latter matter may be regarded as closed...
...against child labor), Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania (for prohibition), Minnie Maddern Fiske (against the use of furs of animals* caught in cruel steel traps) and many another worthy man and woman. The Federation also passed resolutions for the beautification of highways, for a federal child labor amendment, for support of the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act.† In addition it decided to found a permanent "legislative bureau" in Washington, directed all its member clubs to study the "crime situation," and finally re-elected to office its President, Mrs. John D. Sherman...
Premier Aristide Briand carried on last week with the support of his unprecedented "majority of enemies." (TIME, June 7.) Though a member of the Republican Socialist party, M. Briand found himself supported by the Right (including even the ultra-reactionary Royalists) in his efforts to save the franc; while the Left majority which confirmed his Cabinet in office (TIME, March 29) deserted him, and its leaders charged that he was placing France at the mercy of bloodsucking international financiers...
...private system of censorship, in spite of occasional lapses such as the present, has worked well. Since it draws support from the actors themselves, the board of suppression has at least an understanding of the problems of playwrights. For this reason, the play jury is infinitely more desirable than a miscellaneous panel of up-right but ill-informed moralists...