Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the fund collected is not given for "charity" in the ordinary sense of the word. The spirit of the donation is one of cooperative help rather than alms giving. The money is devoted in the greater part to establishing institutions which will, enable the poverty-stricken students to support themselves while they carry on their study...
...argument brought once more into the national arena a figure once prominent there, for one of the arguers of the. State's case in the support of the law was George E. Chamberlain...
...journey to Washington on behalf of the Presbyterian Church and in company with his brother. The two visited the President and also gave a dinner. William devoted his efforts to religion, Charles to politics. Charles said to reporters: "I see no plan which will give the Democratic Party the support of a majority of votes in the East without setting it up against the desires of the voters of the West and South...
...credits. As a Socialist, and concomitantly anticlerical, he was bound to oppose having the French State represented at the Holy See. As a statesman, he could see no advantage to France in maintaining apparently insignificant relations with the Pope. As a politician, he had to remember that his parliamentary support was dependent on an effective anti-clerical policy...
With little ostentation they have convened for the erecting of permanent political machinery. And in view of the continued accumulation of opposition, their sanguine persistence seems almost unjustified. At the convention just held, the Progressive movement lost its life-blood--the support of the Railroad Brotherhoods and of the Socialists...