Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bundesen had piled up a big lead over Horner in Cook County. But, as a whacking rebuke to the rule of Bosses Kelly and Nash, downstate counties turned in a lead of 310,000 for Horner, insured him the nomination by 150,000 votes. Asked if he would now support Horner in November, Mayor Kelly snarled: "How the hell should I know...
Mayor Kelly last week had two alternatives: 1) play ball with Democrat Horner; or 2) hold fast to the Tribune's apron-strings and lend silent support to the Tribune's Lawyer Brooks, who proved himself an able political personality by swamping Small and the five other Republican hopefuls...
Hard pressed for ammunition in the campaign, his political enemies spread scandalous lies that his kinky hair and heavy features were signs of Negro blood, that the 350-acre farm to which he frequently retires with his vivacious, red-headed wife, is only a device to gain agrarian support. He drives an Auburn, golfs in the 90's, goes duck-hunting. Impressed by his vigorous campaign and easy victory, Presidential supporters of Kansas' Alfred M. Landon promptly boomed Nominee Brooks for keynoter at the Republican National Convention...
...outcome of this experiment will depend entirely on popular support and it will be in the students' hands whether History and Science develops as a field and eventually assumes the stature of History and Literature or Whether it crumbles away into mere nothingness. At first limited to six concentrators, the future status of the new addition will be based on the number and type of men who present themselves as candidates before next September. If sufficient interest and enthusiasm is evinced, the quota and facilities will be enlarged to provide for those men who feel interested in a cultural...
...scheme and its value will be incalculable if the many opportunities provided by it are recognized and used by the students. It is to be hoped that these opportunities will be accepted in the spirit in which they are offered, and that by its interest the student body will support the launching of the educational man-'o-war, History and Science...