Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only private business, but also the American government, have come to exercise a preeminent influence over the internal affairs of these countries. Government equipment and even troops have been lent to administrations for use against rival parties. Governments, which received the complete support of their people, have not been granted recognition for years because the original prejudice of our State Department was in favor of the previous administration. When strong popular movements, hostile to American encroachment, have been placed in power, the American government has not hesitated to interfere in a financial and even in a military way. To many...
...that nobody really had been murdered at all. We laughed too--just as long and loud as we could--but we fear the man next to us looked a bit skeptical, as we have faint recollections of having grabbed him violently by the left leg (merely for support, of course) after the first revolver shot had been fired. To relieve the general feeling of uneasiness in the audience further a soprano came out between the acts with "What Do You Do Sunday, Mary"--which didn't make us feel a bit better. She was rewarded with a big bunch...
Above all, no man may chance his views on any subject. No Catholic may become a Protestant, no Democrat may support Coolidge, no capitalist turn socialist! Or once again would Mr. Root be forced to take up his lantern and wander out into the night...
Urging his plan, Mr. Hale pictured school study-teams going into training, employing coaches, receiving their schoolmates' support (vocal and otherwise), "fighting" for the national scholastic championship as they would for a football title...
...told to avoid Government paternalism and to organize cooperative marketing systems; the Federal Reserve Bank was praised; uneconomic taxation was scored; belief was expressed that some reduction of wages must occur; everyone was urged to vote; and to the U. S. Supreme Court was pledged the Association's support...