Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throats. With wrathful eyes they read that "Winnie" had somersaulted. In the absence of Premier Baldwin, though presumably at his direction, Chancellor Churchill had reversed the whole policy of the Cabinet, had turned it from encouragement of the owners in their demand that the miners accept longer hours to support of the miners in their resistance to accepting regional instead of national wage agreements...
...Union Congress met last week at Bournemouth and went on record by a sizable majority against future employment of the "general strike" weapon by British labor. A feature of the meeting was the announcement that Russian trades unionists will contribute 1,000,000 more rubles ($500,000) to the support of the coal strike...
...Government of Greece is first to occupy the central telegraph office at Athens with a handful of men. The operators should be forced to announce that the Government has been seized, and to demand expressions of loyalty to the new regime from the provincial authorities. With these pledges of support in his pocket almost any potent Greek can declare himself Dictator. General Theodore Pangalos seized power in exactly this way (TIME, July 6, 1925), and held on for 13 months. His successor, General Kondylis, accomplished his coup by methods equally simple and unconstitutional (TIME, Aug. 30). Therefore sophisticated persons were...
...interview: "There is nothing I can say about the debt accord; that passed out of our hands and went before Congress when Ambassador Berenger and I signed it. Of course, I advocate its ratification. It would be a poor agreement indeed if the man who wrote it did not support it. "Nobody expects the United States to try to ruin financially any nation which is trying to discharge her obligations...
...working classes will suffer, but we are sure all classes will support the Government. Italy is primarily a nation of the middle classes, which must be taken care of first, even though the richer classes and the proletariat suffer...