Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important reports in secret to the committees of the Chamber. To this procedure the Communists strenuously objected and were quieted only by the strong hands of a dozen or so sergeant-at-arms. Socialists were in a state of flux and could not make up their minds whether to support the Government's Moroccan policy or range themselves definitely with the Opposition. As a vote on this point was postponed, they were left in their quandry...
Senator Underwood is facing a very dubious chance of reëlection next year. Recently, he purchased an estate in Virginia, whither he expects to retire in due time. Some conjectured that he is making a last effort to rally support. Yet Senator Glass of Virginia recently advocated a 20% maximum surtax and ether Democrats, in spite of their last year's opposition to the Mellon plan, seem to be edging towards a compromise with lower surtaxes...
...theory, the Dominion need not support the Mother Country in any policy or war which she undertakes; in practice, it has never worked out that way. It is thus argued that, if the Dominions are morally obliged to support the United Kingdom, and since they have (following the signing of the Versailles Treaty which Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Union of South Africa signed separately) international status as independent nations, the least that could happen in equity would be to give them a share in the control of the destinies of the British Commonwealth...
...parties of the Right and Centre, represented in the Commission, whose support M. Caillaux has consistently sought, accepted his recommendations and they were passed by a majority. The Socialists, however, hung out for a capital levy, but were expected to drop that issue before the reconstructed budget is debated in the Chamber...
Surprise in Belgium was quickly clouded by well-founded pessimism. Such a Cabinet would never command support from Parliament. Premier Poullet was wary. He did not lead his Cabinet into the Chamber of Deputies, as did his predecessors, and bluntly demand a vote of confidence. Instead, he put the onus of responsibility on the Catholic Party by asking its representatives in the Senate and Chamber if they were prepared to support his Government.* The Catholic Senators voted no confidence, 36 to 22. The Catholic Deputies voted no confidence...