Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place on the Supreme Bench of the United States, in that room of the Capital which had been the meeting place of Congress during a century of wery kind of ordeal. It is not merely that Justice. Holmes has given twenty-five years of his life to the support of the national integrity to which he was heir, nor yet that no man before him ever served in the Supreme Court at such an advanced age. This is a man who has seen the law not in terms a didactic decisions, but as the ancient instrument of justice, an instrument...
Asked whether he would use statistical material in support of his statements, Reading replied that he did not consider statistics vital. "As a matter of fact, the available figures, while not well compiled, favor my side of the argument. The statistics compiled by the Census Department in Washington are useful, but they include all homicide," Mr. Reading continued. "A child may run in front of your car, which may have the best brakes in the world, and yet you have extinguished a life. That's not murder, yet a case of that sort would be included in the Census Department...
...Plus an annuity of $250,000 to begin ten years after purchase. †The revolt of the Panamen was not, as is often charged, instigated by the Roosevelt Administration. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French engineer, engineered the revolution, which was bloodless. President Roosevelt quickly sent warships to support the new gov- ernment. Explaining this to his Cabinet, President Roosevelt said: "I simply lifted my foot...
...Philadelphia Civic Opera Company does little boasting and yet it attracts attention by reason of achievement. To be sure it is not a large organization and its support comes from public funds; its singers are not of international reputation and the players in the pit are borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. But it has Alexander Smallens for conductor, W. Attmore Robinson for artistic director, men who have refused to be bound by a Verdi-Puccini repertoire. Last year they gave the U. S. premieres of De Falla's El Amor Brujo, of Erich Korngold's Der Ring des Polykrates...
Tomorrow, the opening lecture of the series will be delivered by Mr. Harry Guggenheim. President of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, on the need of public support for aviation...