Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here the whole right stepped into the breach, joined with the twenty still loyal to the Premier, and, thus forming a majority, voted confidence. The situation is queer and precarious. Briand has a majority to which he can look for support upon only one subject, namely finance. For help upon all others, he must look to his financial opponents. He must play a shifting, short-suited game, now depending upon one hand, now upon the other. Apart from the actual financial problem, observers can watch with interest, this spectacular straddling...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association of America at its annual conference which was held last Saturday at Hanover under the auspices of the Dartmouth voted to support the Student Federation and continue its policy of opposition to overemphasis of football. The Association went on record as favoring the plan of giving to the recently formed Federation both educational news and editorial comment. At the same time a new plan for the better exchange of intercollegiate news among the members of the Association was submitted and approved...
...although Imperialism has since been nourished by accretions of territory and the vaunts of a dictator, Italy is still impoverished, industrially, educationally. Mussolini has brought order. He is creating conditions favorable to industry and trade. But there would seem to be little to support the idea that the Roman Empire is about to flower into martial glory, except a persistent and lustrious sentiment...
Cleverest of sales arguments is a convincing proof of some point that needs no proof at all. The fuddled buyer, agreeing with the salesman before the latter has uttered a word, follows the ensuing exposition with delight, and his support of an opinion is quickly turned to enthusiasm for a commodity. No modern corporation has used this sales method with more humorous ingenuity than Colgate & Co., soap makers. Up and down the land, in all the better magazines, Colgate & Co. has suggested that shaving is sensible and whiskers are silly. Last week, for its support of this curious view, Colgate...
...Marshal knew: 1) That Poland may be said to have "lost out" diplomatically through the failure of France to secure for her a League Council seat (TIME, March 29, THE LEAGUE), and through the signing of the Russo-German ("neutral support") treaty between Poland's two chief enemies (TIME, May 10, GERMANY). 2) That Poland's budget refuses to balance, this having led to the fall of the Skzrynski Cabinet (TlME, May 3). 3) That early last week the Nationalist leader Witos formed a new Cabinet and welcomed into it, as Minister of War, Pilsudski's avowed...