Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the League's first national meeting was held in Washington, attended by representatives from 48 States. Wrote Franklin Roosevelt from Hyde Park: "I am sincerely proud that you are gathering in support of my candidacy." Best measure of the League's loyalty to Nominee Roosevelt was its violent opposition to Nominee Landon. "God help the American people," roared John Lewis, "if all they have to depend on in the future is that degree of consideration which will come from this little man out in Topeka, Kans., who has no more conception nor idea of what ails...
Last week Florida Democrats held a special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews...
...Lastly we praise the Constitution in its entirety and inclusive of its amendments. . . . Finally, lest specification detract from the fullness of our sanction, we publish our unreserved and unqualified endorsements of all public acts, radio addresses and statements of our leader, pledging our resources and our activities in his support and in support of our 16 principles even as he has thrown into the battle every ounce of his endurance...
...week's end Premier Blum was still in a quandary, and about the only help he had been able to muster was a British Foreign Office statement saying that "His Majesty's Government are continuing to give the fullest support to the efforts of the French Government" and advised "maintenance of a strict, impartial attitude if the unhappy events in Spain are to be prevented from having serious repercussions elsewhere." Simultaneously Whitehall buzzed with rumors that Army, Navy and Air Force experts were actually studying whether intervention by an expeditionary force to Spain may become "requisite." For centuries...
...sociologist advanced this thesis to U. S. readers in a scholarly volume packed with quotations from moral and scientific authorities ranging from Stendhal to Havelock Ellis, from Montaigne and the Hebrew prophets to Bertrand Russell and Judge Ben Lindsey. Unmarried himself, Dr. Edward Alexander Westermarck is eminently equipped to support his point of view, has written on the subject of marriage for the past 47 years...