Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that section of the U. S. which reveres both the Mason-Dixon and the color lines: "Was it not the Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull of Tennessee. . . . Mrs. Earle . . . a daughter of the Blue Grass State...
...England service at the wedding of her favorite son. It also happens that the bishop to whom Vicar Jardine owes allegiance is the Right Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson. Bishop of Durham, a noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the few bishops openly to support Novelist A. P. Herbert's liberalized divorce law. Just before the Coronation at which, as one of the King's supporters, he gazed for hours straight into the face of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Durham announced that he felt it disgraceful that Roman Catholics...
...that some "settlement satisfactory to both sides could be worked out", but certain it is that bloody strife between capital and labor will continue as long as organizations like the C.I.O. established for the deification of an aspiring Mussolini like John L. Lewis know they can count on the support of Federal, State, and local governments to come to their rescue when it appears that man's sacred right to work might be enforced after...
...married her, but last March he ar rived in Manhattan, brideless and damning a U. S. Consul in Jugoslavia. "He got to have proof can I support her. I tell him about Wiseman. He no listen. I been to Washington to the State Department. I been to Bob Marshall.* I been to the Alaska Congressman.† I got a lawyer. We telephone Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He cost me $34. We sending telegrams four times. I go to Seattle, get affidavits from seven wholesale houses which sell to me in Wise man how much I buy. I come back to Washington again...
...became fully explanatory: "[Opposition to Nazi anti-Semitism] is irreconcilable with the friendship that binds us to Germany." It looked as though Mussolini and Hitler, having promised to pool their common problems (TIME, May 17), had come to a gentleman's agreement whereby Mussolini would now give open support to Hitler's Jew-baiting...