Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phase. From mill gate and picket line the major action shifted rearward to civil courts, State capitals, Congressional committee rooms and the editorial and advertising columns of the nation's press. Temporarily stalemated by martial law in two steel States, both Labor and Capital grasped desperately for the support of Public Opinion. And Public Opinion, without the support of which no major strike is ever won, seemed to be swinging slowly, imponderably to the side of the embattled steelmasters...
...stand, New Zealand's Armstrong thundered: "The British Government and British employers, who for years have been the keystone of the opposition to shorter hours, this time have been virtually abandoned by all the Dominion Governments and have had to keep India working more than usual to support their arguments publicly. The movement among the self-governing Dominions away from British toward American leadership on labor questions- which began with the American entry into the I. L. C.-has now developed to this point...
...game, least of all Communist Leader Maurice Thorez and Socialist Leader Blum himself. These two had decided upon a policy of lying low for the present, letting the more moderate new Premier of France, genial Camille Chautemps, a briar-sucking Radical Socialist, find money for a busted Treasury, support for the franc, and technicians able to grapple with France's increasingly ugly adverse trade balance...
...everyone in Whitehall knows, Sir John owes his presence in the Government not to any general feeling that he would be a good Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the fact that he heads a minute political party, the "Simonite Liberals," whose support the Prime Minister needs in order to maintain the "National" (i.e., coalition) character of his Cabinet. Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic...
...days when popular ballads sang of little tots tugging their papas away from the saloon and home to their sick and starving families, Illinois passed its Dram-Shops Act. Any one injured or deprived of his means of support as a result of another person's intoxication could apply for damages not only from the grog seller, but from the grog seller's landlord. Repealed during Prohibition, Illinois' Dram-Shops Act of 1874 was revived in the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and last week it was invoked by a Chicago lady who claimed her Christmas...