Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years helped impecunious comrades keep their landladies at bay. Yet last week militant pinks set themselves to make the Socialist Party Congress at Marseille hot for Vice Premier Blum. His recent resignation "without a fight" as Premier (TIME, June 28, et seq.) and his orders to Socialists to support the new Cabinet of moderate Premier Camille Chautemps they flung last week in Leader Blum's face with fury, charged him with betrayal. "Everything should be done by us Socialists to make life impossible for the Chautemps Cabinet!" cried Delegate Jean Zyromski...
...Fred Hallin, recovered sufficiently from his illness to begin circulating a petition demanding her reinstatement. Snorted Father Hallin: "Isabelle had rehearsals here in the house because the school hall was too cold. But there were no drinks. I do all the drinking in this family." Also eager to support Teacher Hallin were the parents of students who had attended the rehearsals. Snapped Charles M. O'Connor: "Why didn't the school committee come to the parents? Instead they took matters in their own hands and gave everybody the impression that terrible things went on." Echoed Mrs. Grace Whittredge...
...London last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition strongly identified themselves with the French and Spanish Leftist Governments. Declared prominent British Laborite Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, M. P.: "I desire to make it clear that members on the Labor benches are ready to support any action which, without injuring our position, is of benefit to the other democratic nation across the English Channel...
...long first-draft preamble was soon sliced down to one paragraph remarking the Guild's partisanship on the Supreme Court plan, the Spanish civil war, "the support of a particular political party," its affiliation with C.I.O. Some small-town publishers, still comparatively free from unionization, wanted in the resolution no recognition of the right to collective bargaining, fearing that it would inspire immediate mass organization in their plants. But broad-viewing publishers like Roy Howard fought for and won inclusion of such recognition as a means of gaining public goodwill. Up on his feet a dozen & more times jumped...
Experience long ago taught Britain the necessity of presenting a united front to recalcitrant foreign debtors. The instrument shaped for this purpose was the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, a tough-minded agency which has the active support of the British Government. In the U. S., Congress provided for an analogous agency in a rider to the Securities Act of 1933, but because this smacked of dollar diplomacy President Roosevelt instigated a private agency called the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council now headed by Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Last week the Council published its annual report...