Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first week Judge Jacob Gitelman sat on Rochester, N. Y.'s City Court bench in 1934, he laid down the rule that every drunken driver was going to jail. Because one truck driver pleaded that a straight jail sentence would cost him his job, thereby taking away support from a wife and six children, Judge Gitelman sentenced the offender to spend six Sundays in the Monroe County Penitentiary. Legality of Judge Gitelman's experiment was questioned, however, because Section 2188 of New York Law says "once a sentence starts it must not be interrupted." To remove this obstacle...
Declared Mrs. Greneker: "They will stimulate the dexterity of fingers and make us more sensitive, rhythmical and free in finger movement. The five digits, instead of corrupting freedom of movement, will support and complement each other." That the inventor of Fingertips received such a volume of good-humored publicity for her gadgets was largely attributable to the fact that she is the wife of Claude Greneker, veteran pressagent for Broad way's play-producing Brothers Shubert...
Curiously, the panicky selling did not spread to the over-the-counter market. But neither that nor Treasury support, which appeared when trading grew demoralized, prevented prices from diving to new lows for the year. At week's end long-term Government issues showed losses of as much as 1¼ points, which is serious in the Government market, a ½ point drop being rated a break...
With the Spring sports season around the corner it is time for the H.A.A. to redefine its relations with the student body. If athletics are to compete successfully with other forms of extracurricular activity and the demands of studies, the H.A.A. must gain for itself increased undergraduate support...
...great mass of the College has views on athletic policies and problems which deserve to be heard, but which the H.A.A. does not hear fully. The H.A.A. has made some attempts to win undergraduate support by a policy of harkening to undergraduate voices. But these attempts are failures because the student committees which they established meet so sporadically as to cripple student interest and initiative in athletic problems...