Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort was made to conceal the fact that this mass outing had any other than one principal purpose: to bring back to Washington a Party more united in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt. For by last week the President himself had registered the fact which observers had noted: that although he has not quarreled with his Party leaders, a rift has opened between them. First major cause of that rift was his Supreme Court enlargement proposal, which many did not like. Last week Washington was still shaking its head over the sharp words of the report with which the majority...
...Auriol borrowed eight billion francs (TIME, March 22). Last week government economists figured that another 20 billion francs will have to be found by the Treasury this year. It was believed in Paris that the Cabinet's exchange equalization fund had been almost exhausted, and only friendly support from Washington and London kept the franc from slipping. After almost a year of Popular Front rule the Blum Cabinet found itself still unable to agree what basically should be done when it met one morning last week in emergency session at the Palace of the President of the Republic...
...opening wedge to Fascist Dictatorship!" Last week when Orator Blum asked exactly these powers for his Government he cried: "We are backed by the masses of this country. . . . Too often have we seen the policies demanded by the people overthrown by shady maneuvers! . . . My Government not only has the support of the people but the enthusiasm of the people...
While the returning classes have set up a tradition of generosity toward the University, both by class gifts and in individual donations--gifts which are becoming harder to make and yet which are increasingly needed as time goes on--financial support is far from the primary consideration of the University in welcoming its twenty-fifty classes. For these men are at an age to be called upon for active service on the various governing bodies and the visiting committees of the University, and by their opinion to guide and influence general University policy...
...uncharted seas, there will always be opportunity for men of ability. And with this ability, it should be possible for the young men of Harvard to shape their destinies. For it is to these men that the union in general and the University in particular will look for support in the years to come. There can perhaps be no better words with which to send off a graduating class than the motto carved on the back of one of the gates of the Yard...