Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also rumored that Mr. Wilcox was drafted for the race by influential businessmen of Miami and elsewhere in the State. At any rate, he seems to have the support of the solidest of Florida's financially solid citizens. Mark Wilcox on Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt is not God. He is a man just like all of us. He is bound to make mistakes. When he does, I will vote against...
...read Pundit Lippmann's column in full. He too made the statement, which he signally failed to support with any evidence, that this country's people have changed in their attitude toward war during recent months. Now you say the same thing; or at least I so interpret your rather awkward sentence; though you do not say whose attitude has been changed, or how many attitudes...
...more expensive to borrow. Last week the President told Congress it was now time to lower reserve requirements-which the Reserve Board did forthwith. Net effect of lowering reserve requirements was to increase excess reserves from $1,700,000,000 to $2,400,000,000. That is enough to support a credit expansion of perhaps $15,000,000,000-if businessmen would borrow...
...consistently for the New Deal, but last winter any hope Franklin Roosevelt might have entertained to reward Mr. Dieterich's loyalty was thwarted. Governor Horner and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly paid separate visits to the White House, each to say that this year he would support not Dieterich but a candidate of his own choice. Result was that Mr. Dieterich regretfully decided not to run. Governor Homer's entry was an amiably conservative downstate Congressman named Scott Lucas. To oppose Mr. Lucas, Mayor Kelly and Cook County's Democratic Committee Chairman Patrick Nash chose...
...campaign that followed, Candidate Igoe made the most of whatever degree of White House partiality was shown by the facts that Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan journeyed to Illinois to speak on his behalf and that pink-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis gave him his public support. Candidate Lucas, who voted against Roosevelt on the Wages-&-Hours Bill, parried by sticking to the local issue of "Throw out the Bosses." In last week's balloting, as early reports came in from the metropolitan districts, Candidate Igoe rolled up an impressive lead of 70,000 votes which began to dwindle...