Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Against the advice of his brother, the Emperor Francis Joseph, he accepted the Crown of Mexico upon promise of support from Napoleon III, which was not forthcoming. Abandoned, he made a last stand at Queretaro in the spring of 1867, but was captured, court-martialed, executed on June 19 of that year...
...Noted with attention a decision by the Trade Union Council to throw its support once more behind the Miners Federation. As everyone knows these potent bodies were estranged when the Council called off the "general strike" (TIME, May 10), which was originally begun to back up the coal strike...
President Ella Alexander Boole of the National W. C. T. U officially declared last week that "we cannot compromise" on Sunday openings of the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia. She withdrew" the W. C. T. U. exhibits and moral support. The Exposition already had lost the moral support of Presbyterians, Methodists and Lutherans...
Many a Spaniard was vexed at Dictator Primo's exalted connivance at providing Abd-el-Krim with opulent support for life on a balmy isle 45 miles long, 32 wide and only 380 miles off the coast of Madagascar. At Madrid the slogan, "Hamstring Abd-el-Krim!" has long attained a popularity rivaling the no-longer-touted, "Hang the Kaiser...
Frenchmen consider that peace with Krim was cheap at the price, promised him comfortable support in his exile...