Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking Senator Borah's attitude of mind towards the deaf and dumb as an index of official Washington, we can well understand why Gallaudet College government supported institution of the higher education of the deaf and dumb, is repeatedly denied the financial support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse...
...Curtis, the Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas (TIME, Nov. 7). Mr. Curtis last week stuck to his job as G. O Party leader in the Senate, letting circumstances alone change his boom from that of a remote compromise candidate to that of the second man in line for the support of the present Administration. The first boom buttons of the season appeared: "Curtis for President...
...Hoover maintained an industrious silence last week in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. His friends were discreetly jubilant. First to swing from the draft-Coolidge movement to Mr. Hoover's support was Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, "Red Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" (TIME, Dec. 12), representing 26 Texas delegates...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, the man without whose support Mr. Lowden cannot hope to enlist his own state delegation, continued hostile to Mr. Lowden. Mayor Thompson has enormous admiration for President Coolidge. Last week, Mr. Thompson's comment on the Coolidge statement was a clownish mixture of shrewdness and absurdity: "Well, I'll vote for him anyway...
Captain Biddlecomb continued by describing the peculiar system used in Germany, by which the individual municipalities rather than the central government tend to support the aerial transport routes through subsidies. "Germany," he said, "has also made rapid strides in the technical development of air craft, being forced by the limiting clauses of the Peace Treaty to obtain maximum efficiency with minimum horsepower...