Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University coaches will attend, and give a short talk at the rally, while all the members of the first year team will be present. All Freshman should attend, as it will be their best chance to support the team before the most important game of its season...
Wrathfully he informed M. Clémentel that the Radical Socialists would not support him, although they are his closest political kin. "What a thrust!" wrote one French correspondent. "A mortal thrust through the vitals of Clémentel. A spiteful thrust at Briand...
...Senate, baldish, flowing-whiskered M. Clémentel is of the Gauche Democratique, a group which corresponds almost exactly to M. Daladier's Radical Socialists in the Chamber. Naturally he expected their support, proceeded with confidence to round up his personal following which lies a little further to the right, finally sought the weighty aid of great Aristide Briand, a statesman supposed to be above party because of his achievements in the realm of Peace...
...Republicans of Goodwill." Summoned by President Doumergue to form a cabinet last week, Fighter Tardieu accepted the mandate with characteristic brusqueness. He would not consult party leaders and try to win their support, he said. Others had done that and failed. Instead he would ask "republicans of good will," like Briand, to enter his cabinet on their personal responsibility, without impliedly pledging the support of their parties. With this cabinet he would face the Chamber of Deputies and they might unseat or sustain him as they chose. In effect, M. Tardieu slapped down before all France the following cabinet list...
...course of our ten years of prohibition the Government and Parliament have utterly failed, in my opinion, to devise means for efficient enforcement. . . . The majority of our citizens apparently refuse to support prohibition and regard it as a sport to commit offenses. . . . The country is flooded with liquor. ... It is time for our dreaming Prohibitionists to face this fiasco and awake...