Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would almost certainly have been elected Speaker by the Democratic majority of 1931. If Finis Garrett had been Speaker, John Nance Garner would not have been boomed for the Presidency in 1932. Without the Garner boom the famed deal whereby California and Texas delegations gave their support to Franklin Roosevelt at the Chicago Convention of 1932 would have been impossible. Without the Hearst-Garner-McAdoo deal, Franklin Roosevelt might never have become President...
...oldtime United Mine Worker, Wyndham Mortimer used to be favored by John L. Lewis over Homer Martin, and at the U. A. W. convention last August it was only personal Lewis intervention that saved his political life within the union. But Mr. Lewis has since shifted his firm support to the Martin "Progressives...
...committee of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. '88, chairman, C. Lee Burwell '89 and F. Austin Harding, Jr. '89 will consider the mermen's case and the amount of its student support...
Feller took the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved: That this house support the Loyalist Government in Spain," defeating the negative speaker, Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, by an audience vote of 17 to 9. A second show of hands revealed that the audience's sympathies lay with the Leftists by a ten vote margin...
...contrast to the democratic basis of the Loyalist administration, the rebels draw their support from the army, the organized hierarchy of the Spanish Church, and big industry Feller stated. No actions of the Loyalists justified revolt, accompanied by the wholesale importation of foreign troops and equipment, he said...