Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Site. A political trade planted Washington on the Potomac mudflats. Thomas Jefferson gave Southern support to Alexander Hamilton's campaign to have the U. S. assume the full cost of the Revolution. In return, in 1790, Hamilton helped Jefferson pass legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from...
Tactics. Despite Senator Brookhart and friends, however, President Hoover's opposition to the Senate bill began to show results. Support of the debenture plan began to crumble. Informal Senate polls predicted its probable defeat. Its advocates schemed how they could transfer it from the farm bill to the tariff bill, explaining that its location there would be more logical. In the tariff bill they thought it would muster more House support, would be harder for the President to veto. Nebraska's Norris drafted an amendment to reduce the bounty on crops over-produced...
...season yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field when it buried the Tufts Freshmen under a 10 to 4 score. F. O. White '32 had complete mastery of the opposing batters, excepting in the fifth inning, when four successive hits netted a brace of runs. The Crimson moundsmen received almost flawless support...
...report was used by the power interests to support their claim that there is little or no interstate transmission of electricity and therefore no Federal problem, calling for Federal investigation and regulation. The report fitted so happily with the tactics of the power interests that there were queries later as to the origin of the study and the explanation of its peculiar limitations. In a Foreword the report states. "In making this study the Bureau had the complete co-operation of the National Electric Light Association... The costs incurred in conducting the survey were defrayed by the Association...
...Boston League of Nations Association, which has offered to support a permanent secretariat, is an asset that will insure a certain amount of stability in the organization. This secretariat with undoubtedly perform the tiresome routine necessary to the mobilization of the various independent college organizations, and will pave the way to well planned, smoothly executed assemblies...