Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith recently pointed out, it was the New Deal which walked out on the Democratic Party, and with it walked Herbert H. Lchman. "The high priest of real democracy" indicated that he would support Bleakley as well as Landon, and nothing could more surely attest to the present Governor's repugnance to followers of Jefferson. Anyone who takes to heart former Governor Smith's admonition to separate the political bunk from the facts must come to agree with him and the men he supports...
...abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond the resources of banks and governments. The curious and widely-accepted talk about the New Deal's communism or fascism, he answers with the support given it in those years by the representatives of the decidedly non-communist and non-fascist American people. The wailing over the holding companies is irrelevant, he writes, to what is simply "a revival of old-fashioned, hundred per cent American trust busting...
...President Roosevelt had the support of the Socialists and Communists, as charged, there would be no Thomas or Browder running for President. Then the People's Front would be as real in America as it is in France. The only force which draws the redicals to Mr. Roosevelt is their detestation of governor Landon and his reactionary supporters. In this they are joined by a growing number of thoughtful voters of the most moderate economic and political views...
...Cleveland Plain Dealer advertisement addressed to the Legion, it roared: "Already the demand has been made in several quarters for pensions for all World War Veterans without regard to length of service, need or disability. We will oppose this demand with every resource at our command. We invite your support in this fight, and urge that your convention declare to the public in unmistakable language where the American Legion stands on this issue...
With five children to support, funds were low in the Hoffman house. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by designing book jackets, wall paper, linoleum. In Paris she became a pupil, later a good friend of aging Auguste Rodin, won her first real fame with a bronze of Anna Pavlova as a dancing bacchante. Her best known works since then have been three heads of Ignace Paderewski (The Statesman, The Artist, The Friend), the colossal stone figures over the entrance to London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...