Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recall. This piece of political machinery provides that when a certain percentage of the voters of a state sign a petition charging an official (governor, judge, etc.) with violation of his oath of office, there shall be an election held within from 20 to 90 days to oust or support the official in question...
...opening at once roused the ire of General Hertzog, fiery, secessionist Premier of the Union of South Africa. Said he: "I wish to say a few words as to South Africa's attitude in regard to the Empire or British Commonwealth of Nations.‡ It has our hearty support and will ever have our hearty support, irrespective of parties and races, as long as it is and shows the character of a commonwealth of free and independent nations, each free and striving to attain what is best for itself, yet in such a manner and in such a spirit...
Unique. Born 50 years ago in Vienna, young Ignaz Seipel became first a priest, and then a professor who mingled strangely political science with moral theology in such books as The Economic Teaching of the Fathers (1907). Later his writings upon statecraft in support of the Austro-Hungarian Empire won him the approval of the Habsburgs and during the World War, a cabinet post...
...particular, about 20 years ago, there was a parade, or rather two parades, which the Boston police yet recall with shakes of the head. A political procession from the university met, in Boston, a procession from M. I. T. Whether the two were in support of different candidates is not remembered, nor important, but the vanguards met and clashed in war, and soon the whole street was filled with a disorderly miss of rioters, belaboring each other with torches clubs, or whatever came to hand. Mounted police were sent for, and because of their elevated seats were able to wreak...
...Theological School was not formally organized until some years later: funds were lacking for its efficient functioning although in 1813 Samuel Parkman of Boston, a wealthy and public spirited merchant conveyed to the Collage a township of land in Maine "for the support of a Professor in Theology." The benefits of this gift were great in prospect, but it was of he immediate help to the department...