Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Clerk" gathers material for and assists the President in preparing speeches and important letters. ¶Mrs. Coolidge autographed a picture of the White House and presented it to a local Presbyterian Church, where it will be auctioned at a bazaar, and the proceeds sent to Persia for the support of missionaries. She also lit two candles in a White House window as a signal for the opening of the sale of "Christmas seals" by the National Tuberculosis Association. ¶ "To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting...
...Leon Blum and his handful of Unified Socialist Deputies continued to flaunt their banner with the strange device "OBSTRUCTION!" M. Blum commands less than one-sixth of the votes in the Chamber; his cohorts represent less than one-tenth of the electorate of France. Yet it happens that, by supporting or refusing to support the bloc of Radicals and Radical-Socialists headed by M. Herriot, M. Blum has been able to obstruct and coerce the Cartel des Gauches,*upon which all the recent governments of France have been forced to rely for a majority...
...think the problem is this Court or none. I cannot imagine success for a new effort. I think it comes with bad grace for us to propose it. If we would live up to our professions in the Hague Conferences and during the War, we must put our moral support behind the Court that exists, and announce to the world that we applaud the gain that has been made...
...generation of men who are now in college may count themselves fortunate to have an opportunity to work for the support of the World Court. Fortunately many of them will some day be able to look back on this period of struggle for world organization, and to see in perspective the fruits which will have come out of it. I entertain little doubt that they will then regard America's delay in accepting both the World Court and the League of Nations as we now regard Rhode Island's delay in accepting the Constitution of the United States
...gradual. No one advocates radical changes at this time. Each college paper realizes that public opinion is not ready for radical changes. But the agreement of all four papers indicates that undergraduate opinion in Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth has reached the point where it is ready to support the first constructive step. This is the problem that now confronts the Athletic Committees...