Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who still support the theory of democratic omniscience may well be disheartened. The public refuses to be in the least regardful of momentous decisions. The public mind, naturally lazy, untangles more easily the web of the latest divorce case than the threads of economic and social policy. It cannot think for itself, yet dare not let others think for it. It arrogates to itself all political intelligence and refuses to exercise...
...election has therefore been called to end a delicate situation. Ziwar Pasha will attempt under an old electoral law to solicit support for his Cabinet from the electorate. The chances are that he will be successful; the chances are that the result of the election will not mirror the true expression of the people's will. The new election will be held on the electoral college plan and that will give the Government, through its officials, the unrivaled opportunity of influencing the voters in its favor...
...arrested Senor Proal, Red agitator, warned other agitators; he had cut down the enormous number of holidays hitherto enjoyed by Mexican Federal officials; he had promised a 30% decrease in Government expenditure for the present year. The result of this policy was to win the wholehearted support of the Agrarians, who pledged themselves to back the Government's plan of distributing and controlling agrarian lands, of establishing agricultural schools. As an official close to the Government put it, "90% of the people are with the President, who has the good-will of capitalists and laborers alike...
...never drafted a uniform divorce law. There have, from time to time, however, been vigorous campaigns to obtain an Amendment to the Constitution and a uniform Federal divorce law. The Pictorial Review recently conducted such a campaign and obtained in behalf of its proposed Federal law the support of many women's organizations and prominent individuals...
...manager has done heroic, work at Memorial. He has given excellent food and good service with the minimum use of equipment, often expediting the service by working, himself, in the kitchen. But 300 men will not support an out of date equipment, designed to serve 1,000 to 3,000. Despite a fine "esprit de corps" the Hall has failed. The reasons are under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry...