Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Shipping Board, who had voted for the Dollar sale. The letter asked officially for the names of members of the Shipping Board who had opposed the sale and for their reasons. It seemed that the President disliked the idea of Government servants going into court in support of a private concern against a Government decision. He was about to apply the axe, said some...
...Premier Aristide Briand failed to form a Cabinet. He wanted the support and representation of the entire cartel des gauches (Left bloc), but the Unified Socialists refused to accept such conditions...
Several days of negotiations ended with unfavorable results and M. Van der Velde was forced to give up his Cabinet architecture. At best, his support would have been tenuous and his Government would consequently have been always at the mercy of dissident Catholics...
...parties in the Chamber of Deputies leaves the Socialists, even counting the six Flemish Nationalists, in a minority of 17. But M. Van der Velde was not without hope. Were not the Catholics themselves divided? Yes, indeed. So the Socialist leader, onetime Minister of Justice, set about securing the support of the Flemish and Liberal Catholics...
...cannot discharge any of them without Senatorial consent. Then 1) when the Senate is not in session no one can be ousted; 2) the Senate could confer life tenure. Furthermore, the party in control of Congress during the short session after a Presidential election could, with the support of the outgoing President, or with a two-thirds majority, enact a law which would prohibit the new President from forming a new Cabinet of his own. In short, the Senate, if Senator Pepper's contention is sound, could so usurp the executive function as to make a President powerless...