Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university students have any understanding of their own interest, and more especially if they have any appreciation of their birthright as American citizens and any willingness to support and defend democratic principles for the common good, they will put aside childish things now. They will prove, by restraint and self-control, their worthiness to be leaders. --Transcript
...individuals, about 240,000 less than are on WPA payrolls at present The U. S. conference of Mayors has urged a Relief appropriation of at least $2,200,000,000. Last week liberals in the House meeting in Texas' Maury Maverick's office declared they would support a bill of Representative H. Jerry Voorhis of San Dimas, Calif, to appropriate $2,520,000,000 for Relief...
lines. Read that report: "Effective [banking] support cannot be obtained merely for a particular occasion. It can only be the result of intimate co-operation over years during which the financial interests get an insight into the problems and requirements of the industry in question and the industrial interests learn the value of the support which financial interests can give." As to Commissioner Douglas' proposal for more competitive bidding for certain new issues, Banker Hall cited the Interstate Commerce Commission, which after long study concluded that except on equipment bonds-a highly-standardized type of security-the railroads could...
With this formula in his pocket Mr. Taylor returned to the U. S. last September. Among his own directors he found support as well 'as opposition to his plan. Outside the reaction was cooler. It was about this time that a movement got underway, led by General Motors and a few of the steel independents, to form a "united front" of big industry against the C. I. O. drive. Attending one of the "united front" meetings and being told that the time had come for a labor-capital showdown, Mr. Taylor arose to announce that he would have nothing...
...reels showed such atrocities with the police standing by, complying with the mayor's orders. The same mayor led a crusade against honest utility companies so that he might tell the ignorant masses that he had reduced their gas bills. Hardly any legislation advocated by communists has lacked his support. Finally, to secure the votes of a certain faction the mayor has been willing to hurl insults at the popular leader of a foreign power at peace with the United States...