Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first we must have the support of the yeomanry. For our platform is this, resolved: that the shop windows of Cambridge, and Harvard Square in particular, are devoid of charm for these ladies who must spend hours looking at them awaiting their escorts. And anyone can easily see how very reasonable is our plea. We do not make it on religious or moral or intellectual grounds but simply on those of sympathy and understanding. Suppose, my friend, that you had to spend long moments in the cold and slush of Cambridge waiting for your chance to eat and dance...
Vexed, Senator Smoot cried out: "Go ahead and ruin the bill!" Subsequently the group which had been defeated in seeking to prevent reduction in surtaxes, retain estate taxes, retain tax-publicity, etc., broke loose and, with support of not a few regulars, added $100,000,000* to the tax cut in one wild afternoon. Towards evening Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania suggested adjournment: "We should stop now after this excessive storm." And so they waited until the next day when passions had cooled...
Fortified by this support, the Premier strode to the Chamber and called for a vote of confidence, an act of daring which he has studiously avoided for weeks, fearing defeat. Suddenly confronted with the necessity for decisive action, the Cartel split once more. Only its extreme left wing, the Communists and Unified Socialists, stood out against the Government. The bulk of the Cartel supported M. Briand, who emerged victorious 326 to 183. Observers remained completely skeptical as to the significance of this apparent "victory." Throughout its checkered career the Cartel has been "split" and yet reunited itself times without number...
...certain members have guaranteed sufficient financing. Such amplitude of money stopped tentative talk last summer of constructing a "skyscraper," church, like the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple to be built on Washington Heights, Manhattan, for Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, with apartments, club rooms, etc., to produce income for the support of the church. The Baptists scorned the idea...
These difficulties, as the Committee points out, are by no means inherent in the system. The importance of providing at Harvard every means possible for students to support themselves, is such that unsparing effort must be made to remedy faults which can be remedied and to evolve a workable plan of student employment. It is to be hoped that the opposition of the authorities, at which the Committee hinta, is more fancted than real. Certainly the management appears to have no reasonable grounds for such an attitude...