Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana preferential primary in 1928. Answered Mr. Lowden: "All I can say is that I know of no man in all our history who has run away from the Presidency." Not long ago Mr. Lowden had told an Iowa delegation that "No man is too big to refuse the support of any state as a candidate...
...Chief Delegate, Hugh Simpson Gibson, resisted the British pressure, maintaining that the Parley had been called to extend the 5-5-3 ratio to smaller ships, and not to modify it in any way. Suddenly the Japanese, previously supposed to favor the U. S. position, switched over to support British Chief Delegate the Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman...
...Rebuttal. Chief Delegate Hugh S.. Gibson was so vexed by this Japanese hint of support to the British that he retorted sharply through the press: "The economic situation [suggested by Viscount Saito] does not arise. It happens that the Washington Treaty expressly provides that no further capital ships are to be laid down until 1931. Therefore premature discussion here of capital ships could not affect the taxpayers' burden for armaments...
Last year the French Opera Comique visited the U. S. and proved, for one thing, that light opera cannot support itself in Manhattan without special assistance...
...patrons of the French Opera Comique last season was Paul E. Poitras (brierwood importer). To him occurred the idea of building an apartment-hotel with 1,000 rooms, enough to yield an income for the support of light opera to be staged in the same building. The money for the enterprise must be raised among music patrons. While Mr. Poitras is in France, the work of incorporating and financing is handled in part by Erik Huneker, son of the late James Gibbons Huneker, famed music critic of the Sun, Times, World. To James Gibbons Huneker is attributed the remark "Nothing...