Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Record one vote for Mr. E. P. Holton's plan for the settlement of England's debt to the U. S. It is the only way in which England could discharge her debt, and it offers the only sensible reason for giving England our support in her present difficulty. In addition to Mr. Holton's suggestions, I suggest that Newfoundland and Labrador: 1) be given to Canada, 2) be given complete independence, 3) be given...
...coffin industry that their business is being completely overlooked. During World War I the shattered remains of Americans were buried in foreign coffins, thereby showing how we failed to give domestic employment to hundreds, as well as dividends to the coffin stockholders. Therefore I am hoping that TIME will support this noble cause by demanding that our government order from various coffin makers hundreds of thousands of coffins and have them shipped to Europe so that I, who am of the draft age, and thousands of other American youth may have the satisfaction of being laid away in a coffin...
...partisan action for peace (but not, said Alf Landon afterward, to the point of forgoing partisan politics in 1940 and handing Franklin Roosevelt a third term). But they gave no committal whatsoever on the embargo. Franklin Roosevelt's biggest net gain was Jack Garner's potent support-at least for 30 days...
...Great Debate had split Big Business as it had split party lines. Such men as Ernest Tener Weir of Weirton Steel, who sees no sense in costly plant expansion to make munitions for profits the Government will then confiscate, moved to support Vandenberg. But Washington lobbies were thick with the agents of Big Business, plugging embargo repeal furiously over the fumes of free cigars. And such business-sensitive newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Herald Tribune were hailing their onetime target, Franklin Roosevelt, and sniping anti-repealers...
...never and would never break it. In the old days Germany's word had the same value and I quoted a passage from a German book (which Herr Hitler had read) about Field Marshal von Bliicher's exhortation to his troops when hurrying to support Wellington at Waterloo : 'Forward, my children ; I have given my word to my brother, Wellington, and you cannot wish me to break it.' Herr Hitler at once intervened to observe that things were different 125 years...