Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polls closed, and New York City had chosen the candidates from which she will pick her next mayor. The great event of the primaries was the excision of Mayor John F. Hylan, who long has held sway over Manhattan under the aegis of Tammany and with the support of his friend, Mr. William Randolph Hearst...
...Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti-Saloon League leader, called at the White House "to assure the President of the support our constituency will give every step toward better enforcement of Prohibition...
...scenes take place in the Senate Office Building. Clergymen and bootleggers, prohibition agents and flappers all appear. There are drinking parties and lobbying parties. Dry "lobby" methods are exposed. The bootleggers support the Dries to preserve their livelihood...
Reds Up. Stung by the failure of their chief, the extremists rallied to the support of another measure, introduced as follows by Extremist Harry Pollitt: "We must have shop committees. . . We will prevent workers from being fired as soon as they suggest anything for the betterment of labor . . . We want it understood that Bolshevism is our object...
...more fortunate section of the population, contemplates with equanimity the ignorance of the rest of the country and speaks glibly of its happiness. The plowman may be happier than the clerk, but his. wages are miserably small and his prospects of comfortable old age are remote." A colleague gave support: "There are unhappy, miserable men among the members of the British Association...