Word: pro
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...usurp the place of a happy life! Terrific expense to the Government! Many ejaculations of like nature sum up the arguments of the objectors. As yet the issue has not been placed directly before the country but it probably will be before long. In any event the arguments pro and con will not change appreciably; and the way the fires of disunion are breaking out today, it would not be impossible that people will clamor for universal training in order to protect the country...
...hope this meeting may be the first of a series of meetings to be addressed by men who have actually been in Russia--both pro and anti-Soviet. For as students we want the facts. ROBERT WORMSER '22 JOHN ROTHSCHILD, Occ. JOSEPH TURKEL '21 HAROLD M. FLEMING '20 ARTHUR FISHIER...
...first step in exorcising this Bolshevik demon in Harvard or anywhere else, is analysis. There is no purpose in attaching the odium of pro-Germanism, of insidious foreign propaganda, of bomb throwing, and of dark plotting to the man who is merely speculating as to governmental theory and practice or wondering about a line of decisions of our supreme court...
Some time ago, before the Treaty had been done to death, a wise man said that the only place where it was safe to be a rabid pro-German in this country was in the United States Senate. Senator Borah, with his horrid fears that poor Germany was going to be crushed; Senator Reed, who was elected by the Germans of St. Louis; Senator Johnson, who apparently preferred, as long as the dear Germans could not keep Shantung, to do anything rather than let the "despicable Japanese" have what was promised them--all of them played into Germany's hands...
...refusing to hold its second annual meeting in Chicago, the Legion made it plain what its action toward pro-Germans and former pro-Germans would be. Mayor Thompson of Chicago had refused to invite the French mission to his city, had publicly proclaimed Chicago as the 'sixth German city of the world,' and had shown his pro-German tendencies by many other actions. It seemed entirely fitting to refuse to hold a convention of American war veterans in a city which had re-elected him mayor...