Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tribunal. Two alternatives are left; wait for the more conservative members to die, or amend the Constitution. If the President is willing to wait several years, the former method would be a smooth modus operandi. The more democratic and efficient method, however, is that of admendment. The overwhelming support given Mr. Roosevelt on Election Day augurs well for a speedy and cooperative ratification of any reasonable change proposed...
...dilettante, Cabot Lodge is a hardworking, ambitious politician who gained much support even from labor during his two terms in the State Senate, a thorough campaigner whose filing cabinets bulge with data on his constituency, and on his enemies. In the past year he visited nearly every hamlet in Massachusetts making political friends. He denounced the New Deal not so much for what it did but for how it was done, demanded, "Give business a chance," "Give Massachusetts working men proper tariff protection," "Stop taking money out of Massachusetts." Two advantages he had: the disgust of decent citizens with...
Another Republican Senator who saved his skin was Senator George Norris of Nebraska, but not as a Republican. For running as an Independent with New Deal support he beat both the regular Republican candidate, Robert G. Simmons and the unorthodox possessor of the Democratic nomination, the loud filling-station owner, Terry Carpenter, who refused to withdraw for the benefit of the New Deal's friend...
Illinois. Despite lukewarm support from Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine, Democratic Governor Henry Horner piled up a 293,000 lead in Cook County, showed surprising strength downstate to win re-election over young Republican Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks...
...basis, reduce debt charges and eliminate graft at the expense of property, owners against whom assessments are made for improvements. The New York Merchants' Association, the Citizens' Union, the Community Councils of New York along with Fusion Mayor LaGuardia and civitarians generally gave the new chapter vigorous support. Bitterly Tammany assailed it and redoubled its efforts particularly against a second proposition on the voting machines, providing that members of the new City Council should be elected by proportional representation. Even "bigger-than-Tammany" Al Smith, stout proponent of Charter reform, sided with his fellows against proportional representation...