Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when a young girl surrenders her virtue? To be sure it is only a picture, but is it teaching the young and innocent girl, even though she may be called a "flapper" that it is "only a little singe" to do this? Is your reporter lending himself to the support of such a false theory? Is is possible that it is not known what the first downward step means to a girl, and that in life where such a thing happens one of two things is bound to follow, either she will madly plunge deeper till in a few years...
...other Coolidge liabilities, there is the inherent feebleness of the man himself, the admitted fact that he is largely a combination of machine support, party propaganda and accident. There is the further fact that Old Guard leaders cordially dislike him personally and resent the accident that projected him into the White House and enabled him to be nominated in 1924. But for the death of Mr. Harding no one would ever have seriously suggested Mr. Coolidge for the Presidency. The fact is he was so negligible a quantity that he might easily have failed for renomination as Vice President...
President Coolidge, on the first day of the new year, made public an appeal to the press for united support of the government's foreign policy, particularly in Central and South America. As stated in the New York Times his position is the following...
...President of a free and democratic republic to make particularly in times of peace. Mr. Coolidge definitely condemns public opposition to and criticism of American foreign policy. With amusing inconsistency he purports to base his appeal in part on the conviction that American sentiment is united in support of the government's policy although the reason for his appeal is the opposition to this policy in a large part of the press. Clearly the real purpose is to gag an opposition which is becoming increasingly embarrassing in the pursuit of the highly questionable action toward Nicaragua and Mexico...
Three hundred and twenty seven pacifists declared that they would not support any future war, and 740 that they were "ready to support some wars and not others." Only 95 held to the traditional view that any war declared by the recognized authority of their country would receive their active cooperation. Almost all the delegates declared their belief that the "present economic system based on production for profit rather than production for use is wrong" while 592 agreed that the present system should be displaced by "a cooperative distribution system in which the workers themselves would share in the control...