Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briggs, Percy Crosby, H. C. ("Bud") Fisher, Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, Milt Gross, John Held Jr., Oliver Herford, Rea Irwin, Maxfield Parrish, Abram Poole, George Benjamin Luks, William Meade Prince, Henry Patrick Raleigh, Cliff Sterrett, Herbert Roth, H. T. Webster, Gluyas Williams, announced through the Democratic National Committee active support of Nominee Smith...
...cannot be enforced and as such demoralize the enforcement of all laws. ... I am not in favor of a national amendment which should force twelve or fifteen great States into a sumptuary system which the public opinion and the real practices of the people of those States would not support. I think it is most unwise to fasten upon the United States a prohibitory system under the excitement of the War, which I do not hesitate to say every sensible supporter of Prohibition in the end will regret...
...Less rigidly partisan than the Hearst web of 26 newspapers is the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, also 26 strong. The Scripps-Howard chain supported La Follette in 1924 and decided to support Hoover without "knocking" Smith this year. Scripps-Howard is wet. These facts explained the appearance, in close succession lately, of the two pictures by Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Harry F. Talburt reproduced on pages...
...have been formed, the Harvard Democratic Club, the Harvard Republican Club, the Harvard Thomas-for-President Club, the Hoover-for-President Club, made up of Democrats who have bolted the party, and the Smith-Robinson Club, made up of voters who in spite of regular party affiliations intend to support Smith. The list of speakers which these clubs have secured for the last three weeks of October includes Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Democratic nominee for governor of New York, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, Congressman Carroll L. Beedy of Maine and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt...
Money for stock exchange deals bobbed up and down last week. It fell to 6%, one per cent higher than the Federal Rediscount rates. Stock gamblers borrowed heavily. When they wished to renew loans to support their speculations the call rate scooted up to 8%. Nonetheless trading continued heavily, and the rate became...