Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as significant to C. I. 0. as its financial support has been the Garment Workers contribution in manpower. In 1926 when a disastrous strike cost the union some $3,500,000, the only solvent local was David Dubinsky's. He was made president of the international union in 1932, after the death of famed Ben Schlesinger. Under the New Deal membership has jumped from...
Next, inventive Sam Wilson hired experts to support his contention that 50? gas was practicable. When they found to the contrary, he disowned them, advertised for bids from natural gas producers. Pennsylvania miners objected and the Mayor backed down...
...President Roosevelt in his Chicago "quarantine" speech, implies embargoes and other sanctions against aggressor nations. Shouting that government embargoes (not the same as private boycotts) were the surest road to war, the Socialists, Trotskyites, Lovestonites and peace-at-any-price pacifists rallied behind the Oxford oath. To the support of "collective security" sprang the Communists and Roosevelt liberals, who declared only "positive action" by the U. S. could avert war. But all could agree on a personal boycott of Japan, and in the midst of the wrangle the delegates interrupted their recriminations, marched out on the snow-covered campus...
Returning to debate by a vote of four-to-one the convention routed the peasce-at-any-price advocates, revoked its support of the Oxford oath, adopted a belligerent "collective security" program. Thereupon all A. S. U.'s young delegates, having enjoyed themselves hugely marched out of Vassar singing Solidarity Forever...
...have long wished to honor America's discoverer in a manner truly grand. For 75 years they have talked of a ''world's greatest" monument (in the form of a memorial lighthouse), finally got the backing of the Pan American Conference of 1923, a design, support of the League of Nations and "sympathy" of most sister republics in the New World. To publicize the project and to get this sympathy backed by the $5,000,000 hard cash necessary for its completion, the Dominican Government last spring, before it fell to warring with Haiti, announced...