Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota, repining Republican, said: "I cannot bring myself to support actively Secretary Hoover or his policies with regard to agriculture. On the other hand I cannot support Smith. I am a Republican still, although I expect to be very still in this campaign...
...Missouri voters, last week, gave Senator Reed a farewell rebuke and gave the Democratic nomination to Mr. Hay, who is neither handsome, eloquent nor blatant. In school, Mr. Hay was bright. In St. Louis, he is a lawyer. In politics, he preaches Prohibition and yet says he will support Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably many Dutch would support them. The English might even take up weapons and rebel [against the Dominion Government]. . . . I do not think that England and the other Dominions would resort to force...
...life was so hated and reviled was ever so lamented and honored at his death.' " Hated in life for his stern unfriendliness, reviled for advocating measures that his party did not support, Sir Robert Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal...
Politically, he is an independent Republican, at least nationally. But he has made a vow not to support Nominee Hoover unless he declares for modification of the Volstead Act. Prohibition is his chief antipathy. He could not possibly dislike any human being so much...