Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill sponsored by New York's Joseph A. Gavagan, southern members will have to seek other bedfellows. Negro Arthur Mitchell, whose bill provided only for the prosecution of law officers who allowed prisoners to be taken away from them and lynched, announced after his defeat that he would support the Gavagan bill, which provides for Federal prosecution of members of lynch mobs as well as officers...
Significance. For the time being at least the Supreme Court's Wagner Labor Act decisions reduced the great debate over the President's Supreme Court enlargement plan to an all but academic question, for the immediate reason which drove many liberals to support it was their wish for Labor legislation. One important aspect of the Wagner Labor Act not involved in last week's decisions was the right of the Labor Board to order plant elections and give exclusive bargaining power for all to the representatives of the majority. With the boost given them by these decisions...
...Cabinet of Professor van Zeeland is supported by a necessarily loose coalition of Catholics, Liberals, Socialists and Communists. It is typical of the setup of Democracy against which dictators rail, scoffing that efficiency is impossible if the head of the state has to spend most of his time conciliating the views of supporters so diverse. Challenged by Degrelle and his Rexist Party, however, the Cabinet parties pulled themselves together, urged Professor van Zeeland, who had never run for an elective office, to do so as a personal challenge to Demagog Degrelle. They assured the Premier he would be elected...
Throughout Paul Hindemith's arduous career few have ever doubted that he was workmanlike. Born to a poor family outside Frankfort in 1895, he was only four when his father began to give him music lessons. At 13, he was helping support the family by playing at theatres and dances. At 15, he was concert-touring with his sister, a talented pianist. In 1915 Hindemith became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort...
Nevertheless, it does not appear altogether fair that alumni should be asked to back without stint a program which not even all the students wholeheartedly support, since the students are not incapable of hearing a small part of the burden. Only hearty cooperation between the undergraduates, in voluntarily supporting the H.A.A. while in college, and the alumni, in contributing toward a permanent fund, can bring an ultimate solution to the athletic program of the University...