Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prompt to support its members, the National Maritime Union gave the crew's story, charged that Captain Gainard had spun a yarn to the .Washington Post's staff correspondent, Edward T. Folliard, who had a frontpage, five-column scoop on the Algic's, horrific trip. Alleging that Correspondent Folliard was inspired by the Maritime Commission, the N. M. U. statement said: "The crew, organized 100% in the N. M. U. conducted itself in the disciplined and orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down...
...which may be budding in North Africa. Many of this colony's landed proprietors, while French in citizenship, are of Spanish. Italian. South American or even German birth. Almost to a man they are more conservative than the Communist. Socialist and moderate Radical Socialist parties which in coalition support the Chautemps Cabinet. Notoriously German are many tough mercenaries of the famed French Foreign Legion. The natives are Mohammedan, excellent fighters, and their chiefs are even more anti-Left than the landed proprietors. Why then should not a French commander of much the calibre of General Franco arise in North...
...League clubs, organized a haphazard collection of teams ambitiously called the American League. Before the season ended the league dejectedly disbanded. This year hopeful sports promoters tried again. Most hopeful were a group of Bostonians, who got together a number of obscure ex-college football players, fished for the support of Boston's many Irishmen by calling them the Shamrocks. By last week the Shamrocks had lost two of the three games they had played, were losing money lavishly. No one expected them to last out the year. Then suddenly the Shamrocks announced that they had signed the celebrated...
...announcement of a $200,000 athletic endowment fund by President Conant of Harvard has set a precedent that will reverberate on the intercollegiate horizon for some time to come. Designed to free Varsity and intra-mural sports forever from the somewhat hazardous support rendered by the box-office sports the latest addition to the Cambridge institution's bulwark against the taint of professionalism has set her on a pinnacle of amateurism reached by only a few hinterland teachers' colleges...
...wadded and rolled magazines, beer cans were thrown, and one girl was struck in the ankle with a bottle, to say nothing of the numerous jolting slaps in the backs of heads. And coming in the face of the misfortunes of the team the undergraduates are expected to support, no worse lack of sportsmanship can be conceived...