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supporter and progressive
Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.
In the " red 1930s ", many young economists favoured Marxist views, even in Cambridge, and while Keynes was engaging principally with the right to try to persuade them of the merits of more progressive policy, the most vociferous criticism against him came from the left, who saw him as a supporter of capitalism.
Stopes was a supporter of eugenics, in line with the progressive thinking of the era.
Gifford Pinchot, a progressive supporter of public utilities and head of the US Forest Service, which then had jurisdiction over the national parks, supported the creation of the Hetch Hetchy dam.
Generally speaking, the UPCUSA ( especially its leadership ) was a strong supporter of progressive causes, such as civil rights and feminism.
As a critic for The Village Voice ( from November 1986 to December 2005 ) and other publications he has been a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism.
While in Congress, Lemke earned a reputation as a progressive populist and supporter of the New Deal, championing the causes of family farmers and co-sponsoring legislation to protect farmers against foreclosures during the Great Depression.
Dingell is generally classified as a liberal Democrat, and throughout his career he has been a leading congressional supporter of organized labor, social welfare measures and traditional progressive policies.
Frances Watkins Harper was a strong supporter of abolitionism, prohibition and woman's suffrage, progressive causes linked before and after the American Civil War.
A supporter of the progressive faction under General Piet Joubert, he opposed Paul Kruger's policies against the uitlanders, the foreigners who flocked to the Transvaal gold-rush, and warned it would lead to war with Britain.
Fletcher was an old friend and still a mild progressive, and Gilchrist proved to be much more liberal than anyone had believed, becoming an avid supporter of drainage and greatly furthering the program.
During the party split of 1912 Daugherty was a staunch supporter of William Howard Taft and old guard Republican conservatism as against the progressive Republicanism espoused by Theodore Roosevelt.
Emmerich, who is openly gay, and a financial supporter of U. S. progressive politics, states that the decorations and pieces aren't declarations of any beliefs, but rather reflections of his " predilection for art with a political edge ".
He is a strong supporter of replacing the progressive tax levels and a complex system of deductions with a simplified single rate known as a flat tax where the poorest taxpayer would pay the same tax percentage as the wealthiest.
Tonkin quickly gained a reputation as a progressive member of the LCL and was an early supporter of the Liberal Movement faction created by former premier Steele Hall, although Tonkin remained with the LCL when the Liberal Movement split from it.
Angus is a progressive, social justice-oriented member of the Roman Catholic Church and supporter of the Catholic Worker Movement.
He had served as an artillery officer in the 1912 Balkan War and had been involved in the progressive wing of Turkish politics and had been a vocal Armenian supporter of the CUP and the Young Turk Revolution ) of 1908.
He was an enthusiastic supporter of most of the progressive policies of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, a fellow native of the South and to that point only the second member of the Democratic Party elected President ( in 1912 ) since the end of the Civil War.
A progressive Democrat, Neff was a strong supporter of Prohibition and was instrumental in the development of the Texas State Parks Board.
Never a supporter of the Communist Party or even a socialist, she did breathe the progressive air of 1930s New York City ; she always laughed as she described how she and a Barnard friend met their physical education requirement by improvising a tap-dance version of The Internationale.
Initially a supporter of the existing political and social system in Hungary, Károlyi gradually became more progressive and left-wing during his career.
He is a supporter of the labor movement, public education and a progressive tax structure.
Known as a supporter of the people's interests against those of corporations and corrupt politicians, McClatchy made The Bee a bastion of progressive reformism.

supporter and policies
During the World War I he was a strong supporter of the government's war policies.
Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.
In Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto introduced the concept of democratic socialism, and the Pakistan Peoples Party remained one of the prominent supporter for the socialist democratic policies in the country.
Nixon said in a May 1974 interview with a supporter that if he had followed the liberal policies which he thought the media preferred, " Watergate would have been a blip.
Although claiming to be still a supporter of social democracy, his economic policies led people on the left to identify him with neoliberalism and right-wing politics, terms that often carry a very negative connotation in Latin American political debate and academic circles.
She was an active supporter of their campaigns for just, humane and effective drug policies, recognising that many of those with drug problems cannot afford the luxurious facilities available to celebrities.
Though he had been in office less than six months when the panic struck, Van Buren had been a key figure in the Jackson Administration and a vocal supporter of Jackson's policies.
Jones is a supporter of the Conservative Party, and recorded a song called " Mr Brown " written by Robert Hart, criticising the tax policies of the then Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown.
Though at first an ardent, even dogmatic supporter of such liberating aspects of the Revolution, in his policies as Emperor Napoleon later repudiated them, a move typical of revolutionaries who come to power.
A supporter of President Harry S. Truman's foreign policies, she was mentioned as a possible candidate for Under Secretary of the Navy in 1945 and for Assistant Secretary of State in 1947.
During the Napoleonic Wars, Elizabeth Alexeievna was a reliable supporter of her husband's policies as she had been in other personal and political crises.
A strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln's policies during the American Civil War, he was active in raising and equipping dozens of regiments of infantry, as well as cavalry and artillery, for the Union Army.
The Labour Party, now led by Helen Clark, had moved away from the policies of Roger Douglas-both Douglas and his strongest supporter, Richard Prebble, had left Labour to found the ACT party, and Clark's more traditional faction had taken over.
Along with Đukanović and Bulatović, Marović has been a loyal supporter of Slobodan Milošević in all of his policies, but in 1997 he followed Milo Đukanović who broke away from Milošević's influence.
He was a supporter of some of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher.
In economic policies, the DP is a strong supporter of private property rights, free trade, and the free market, although under Thorn's government, the DP greatly increased public sector employment.
A bitter leadership battle soon developed between the populist Dudley Senanayake and the more conservative J. R. Jayewardene, a strong supporter of free market policies and a pro-American foreign policy.
A supporter of the egalitarian policies of Governor Sir George Grey, Bracken championed sovereignty for the native Māori people, and later criticised the government for what he saw to be breaches of its obligations to the Treaty of Waitangi.
He was a strong supporter of the anti-Polish policies of the Russian Empire, and expressed hope that there would be no Poland under any shape or name In 1816 he removed to St Petersburg, where he spent the happiest days of his life, enjoying the favour of Alexander I and submitting to him the sheets of his great work, which the emperor read over with him in the gardens of the palace of Tsarskoye Selo.
As a supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), his selection has drawn criticism from advocates of fair and equitable trade policies.
Later that year, she was one of the Fianna Fáil TDs who criticised the policies of Taoiseach Jack Lynch in relation to Northern Ireland and was a prominent supporter of Charles Haughey, who succeeded him as Taoiseach in December 1979.
Martin declared his opposition to a number of Progressive policies during the campaign leading Maharg, a Progressive supporter, to resign from Cabinet.

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