Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working agreement," he declared, "which will be effective so long as these two powers find it to their in- terest to maintain it." He doubted if it would be any real interest of Hitler to support the Mediterranean interests of Mussolini. "If the British could bring themselves to return some of the conquered colonies to Germany," Langer feels that the Rome-Berlin axis would "probably crack...
...doing he polled about 800,000 votes to 1,200,000 by his rivals combined. Had Dr. Copeland won the Republican primary, LaGuardia running under some other label would again have had the advantage of a three-cornered race. Instead Tammany, beaten in the primaries, announced that it would support Democrat Jerry Mahoney, once more consolidating the Democratic vote. Judge Mahoney being a New Dealer, and having won Jewish sympathy two years ago by standing out vigorously against U. S. participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin, Mayor LaGuardia will have only one major issue to fight on this fall...
Thus with three men in two primaries, and a contest in each, the results were sure to give a test of relative strength. With Jerry Mahoney enjoying the support of Postmaster James A. Farley, and Fiorello LaGuardia, a friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, Senator Copeland and Tammany counted on having a monopoly on anti-New Deal votes which might turn up a majority in at least the Republican primary. These were not enough to prevent Dr. Copeland from being badly beaten in both battles...
...total amount needed by the Council has been placed at $7800, in order to fill the various quotas already established. Of that total, $1500 is allotted to charities, and $3000 goes to Phillips Brooks House for the support of that organization, and in this way the necessity of another drive for funds by Brooks House is eliminated...
...Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention...